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Relatable Quotes About Kids Growing Up

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When you look at your child and see them growing up so fast, it’s hard not to miss the days when they were little. We want our children to grow into independent adults, but we also cherish our time with them while they are young. These quotes about kids growing up too fast will help you find comfort, knowing you’re not alone in feeling this way!

As a parent, it can be hard to watch your child grow up.

Their looks change and they become more independent every day, and while you feel so proud of the people they are becoming, you also feel sad and nostalgic at the same time.

Of course you feel this way; the day your child was born, your whole world changed.

Instantly, you became a full-time caregiver, protector, and fun-maker.

There were days when you wished you could fast-forward to the stage when they were more independent and less reliant on you for every. single.thing.

But now you’re there and you’re wishing you could go back.

One day you realize that you haven’t watched a baby show in years and suddenly, you’re shopping in the big kid’s section and it’s enough to give you a panic attack.

If you’re feeling sentimental and looking for the right words to capture what you’re experiencing, you’re in the right place.

These quotes about growing up too fast perfectly capture the spectrum of emotions we all feel when we see our children growing into their own person right before our eyes.

Does it feel like your kids are growing up too fast, check out our top tips to slow down childhood.

Our Favorite Quotes About Kids Growing Up

“Childhood is a short season.” -Helen Hays

“The days are long, but the years are short. ”

“It flies by in the blink of an eye. Before you know it, they’re grown and gone.”

“I will hold on to the memories and get ready for what’s to come in the next chapter.” -Alissa Kay

“Before you know it, they’ve grown up so fast and all you have are memories.”

“You may outgrow my lap, but you will never outgrow my heart.”

“You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.” -Polish Proverb

“No one tells you that the hardest part of being a mother is watching your child grow up.” – Unknown

“Those little hands and feet won’t be little forever.”

“Cherish the time you have with your children while they are little because they grow up so fast.” – Unknown

“If your days as a mother seem long and mundane, remember that it is but a short breath before their wings are ready and they take flight. ”

“Hold onto the tiny moments and cherish the little snuggles. They grow up so fast.

“Dear Mama, Babies don’t keep.”

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“Let me love you a little more, before you’re not little anymore.”

“Enjoy the little things. For one day you might look back and realize they were the big things.”

“The fingerprints on the wall appear higher and higher. Then suddenly they disappear.” -Dorothy

“It’s a bittersweet moment when your child starts growing up. You’re so proud of all their accomplishments, but you also can’t help but feel a little sad that they’re not children anymore.” – Unknown

“The days are long but the years are short.”

“I constantly go between wishing you could stay little forever and being excited to see all that you will accomplish in this life. ”

“Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you’re in diapers; the next day you’re gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.” – The Wonder Years

“The great paradox of parenthood is that it moves in both slow motion and fast forward at the same time.”

“Dear Mama, There’s no way to freeze time and keep your child little forever. Instead, you must love them and enjoy them as much as you can today because tomorrow they will be a little older.”

“I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.” – Tina Turner

“It’s inevitable. Your kids will grow up. Just don’t let it happen without you.”

“In the blink of an eye, you’ve grown so fast. Now your childhood is a thing of the past.”

“Don’t grow up too fast darling. Age is inevitable, but if you nurture a childlike heart, you’ll never grow old.” -Beth Hoffman

“I wish I could hit pause and keep you as you are. It seems like I waited forever for you to be mine and now that you’re here it feels like it’s all going by so fast.” -Lauren Tingley

“Just because you had to grow up too fast, doesn’t mean your children need to.”

“Our children are only ever lent to us. We never know just how long we will be able to keep them for. So kiss them, cuddle them, and hold them tightly. But most of all, tell them you love them every day.”

“When we worry about what a child will become tomorrow we are ignoring who they are today.”

“Don’t grow up too fast, too soon. Save some time for dreaming.”

“Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.” – Chili Davis

“I already miss the child you were. ” -Lauren Tingley

“Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.” – Louisa May Alcott

“You know that place between sleep and awake. That place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you, that’s where I’ll be waiting.” -Peter Pan

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“I want to hold him in my arms a little longer today, because already my baby is gone. Already there is a little boy in his place. And one day not too far in the future, there will be an older boy in his place, and then a teenager, and then a young man.” -Liz Curtis Faria

“Too many people grow up. That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don’t remember what it’s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors.” -Walt Disney

“Children outgrow childhood so much faster than we’re ready for. ”

“But I’m warning you, once you’re grown up, you can never come back.” – from Peter Pan

“Who says you have to grow up?” -Walt Disney

“I love pictures because they never change, even if the people in them do.”

“Keep your children wild. Don’t make them grow up too fast.” Brook Hampton

“The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow, But children grow up as I’ve learned to my sorrow. So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep! I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.” -Ruth Hulburt Hamilton

“Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.” — Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“I wish I could slow it all down. While I love watching you grow, it’s a bittersweet process. With every milestone your childhood becomes more distant and I know that these days that we have together are limited. ” -Lauren Tingley

Heartwarming Quotes About Kids Growing Up

“She blinked and her baby was walking. She blinked and we went from the crib to a toddler bed. She blinked and it was time to start Kindergarten. She blinked and she was the one in the passenger seat. She blinked and it was time for high school graduation. She blinked and the wedding bells rang. She blinked and she cuddled her grandchild in her arms, so familiarly. She blinked and started to relive each milestone again. And even though she loved the wonder and magic of each season they shared together, she’d never tell anyone to try hard not to blink. Instead, she’d say open your eyes – wide enough – not to miss the blessings each moment right in front of us brings. Because each season has so much struggle, yes; but so much sweetness, too. Life rushes right on by, and we want to collect all the precious memories we can keep. Especially when it was just yesterday my baby was learning to walk. And it seems like all I did was blink. ” – Jaclyn Warren

“If I could I would keep you as mine forever, but my job is to let you go.” -Lauren Tingley

“Your house will be empty before you know it. Don’t waste this opportunity to cherish your children while they are small.”

“You will never have this day with your children again. Tomorrow they’ll be a little bit older than they are today. Today is a gift. Notice, breathe, smell them, hold them, study their little faces for tomorrow it will have all changed.”

“Pay attention and enjoy today mama. Relish the present moment you have with your child before it’s gone.”

“The first time you held your baby, it was the beginning of forever. You were given a privilege to nurture and care for another human being that will be with you until the end of their days on this earth.”

“When you’re in the thick of raising children it’s difficult to notice the little changes that are happening every day. Then one day, you look up from your cup of coffee, and the child that was before you yesterday has transformed into a young adult.” -Lauren Tingley

“I wish I could go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.” -Robert Rodriguez

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” -Unknown

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“The older they get, the more independent they become and the less time you have to spend with them. It’s hard to watch your child grow up and leave you behind, but at the same time you’re so proud of all their accomplishments.”

“Don’t waste your time trying to be the perfect parent. Instead, enjoy, cherish and protect the time you have with them today.”

“If I could do it all over again, I’d change the future by slowing down time and savoring each moment with you. ”

“On the days you feel like you can’t make it, just remember you can. And that this is just a season in life. You blink and they are 8. Then 28. And then they are parents, resembling a you, you once were. So take it in, mama. Let them climb into bed with you any hour of the night. Sing that song they requested for the 10th time. Hold them a little tighter when all they want is to shower with you and feel your skin against theirs. Maybe in raising children you lose your mind a little bit. But, boy, do you find your soul!” -Sharon Hakes

“I’m trying to savor the excitement of seeing you grow and mature into a little boy with his own personality instead of missing all those tiny moments that make up your babyhood because I know it won’t be long before they’re gone forever.” -Lauren Tingley

“As a parent, it’s hard to see your children grow up too fast. I feel like most things in my life are moving super-fast these days but I don’t want any of that fleeting time with you to disappear. ” -Lauren Tingley

“I will spend eternity knowing my children as an adult. But tonight, right here, right now, and for the next few precious years, I have the rare privilege of knowing them as a child. What a gift to experience the children in our lives as children!” -Hilary Weeks

“Enjoy it while they’re little. Everyone says so. They grow so fast. And that phrase seems both so totally true and so totally false at the same time because in the day-to-day of it nothing seems fast at all. A meal can take an eternity. A sleepless night a lifetime. And yet everyone says so: They grow so fast. And so I want to hold him in my arms a little longer today because already my baby is gone.” -Liz Curtis Faria

“The world doesn’t have to lose it’s magic, just because you lost your pigtails.” -Amber Scholl

“It feels like only yesterday my baby was in my arms, and now she’s almost a woman. ” – Unknown

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence frees us to enjoy life as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” -Patrick Rothfuss

“Every day you are taller, wiser, and more amazing. You are quickly becoming the person you were meant to be. I am so proud of you.” -Lauren Tingley

“You are loved for the boy you are, the man you will become and the precious son you will always be.”

“You’ll never look back on your life and think, “I spent too much time with my kids.”

“It’s inevitable. Your kids will grow up. Just don’t let it happen without you.”

“I used to wish for each day to go by so fast. For you to be older, more independent, and able to take care of yourself. Now that moment has come and all I want is to go back and start over. ” -Lauren Tingley

“Today’s tiny little moments become tomorrow’s precious memories.”

“You can’t stop your children from growing up, but you can be present so you don’t miss them growing up.”

“I won’t always cry, Mummy, When you leave the room and my supermarket tantrums, Will end too soon, I won’t always wake, Daddy,… For cuddles through the night & one day you’ll miss, Having a chocolate face to wipe. You won’t always wake to find my foot, is kicking you out of bed, Or find me sideways on your pillow, Where you want to lay your head. You won’t always have to carry me, In asleep from the car, Or piggy back me down the road, When my little legs can’t walk that far, So cherish every cuddle, Remember them all, Because one day, Mummy. I won’t be this small.”

“As a mother, I have found that each day is not long enough to do all the laughing, playing and loving I want to before my children are grown. ” -Lauren Tingley

“There are two gifts we should give to our children. One is roots, the other is wings.”

“There are only 940 Saturdays between a child’s birth and her leaving for college.” -Harley Rotbart

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” -Charles R. Swindoll

“Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it’s to raise kids who become great adults.” -Andy Andrews

“Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they’ve learned.” -Dorothy Nolte

“Sometimes, we’re so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.” -James C. Dobson

“I am not ready for the growing up. Not one bit. I want to grab her and stuff her back inside the little girl. Tell her it isn’t fair she is growing up so fast, that I can barely hold on to time and I just don’t know how to handle the changes.” -Ellen Stumbo

“Childhood is the process of your children growing up right before your eyes.” -Lauren Tingley

“Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don’t want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it’s also a parent’s worst nightmare: That they won’t need you. It’s like the real tragedy of parenting.” -Jonathan Foer

“Sometimes the only way to get over the sadness of your kids growing up is to rest in the beauty of the people they are becoming.”

“The older they get, the faster they grow. It feels like just yesterday my baby was born, but now he’s graduating high school!” – Unknown

“I am honored to be the one who got to watch you grow up. You are my greatest moments personified.” -Lauren Tingley

Funny “Kids Grow Up Fast” Quotes

“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.” – P. J. O’Rourke

“Just so you don’t worry about your kids growing up too fast; they’ll still come home and eat all your food and borrow your money when they’re adults.”

“They say that time flies when you’re having fun. I guess that means being a parent is one long non-stop party!”

“They grow up so fast. It seems just yesterday I was changing their diapers and now they’re asking for the car keys.” – Unknown

“Becoming a mom to me means that you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.” —Nia Vardalos

“Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples. ” -J.M. Barrie

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“It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower or vacuum cleaner.” -Ben Bergor

“Will you just do me a favor and stop growing up so fast?”

“Time flies when you’re raising kids. One day you’re knee-deep in diapers and the next they’re learning to drive.” -Lauren Tingley

“Let your kids sit on your lap while they can, because one day they won’t fit.”

“You’re not even old enough to know how bad life gets.” -The Virgin Suicides

“One day you’re changing their diapers, and the next you’re sending them off to college!”

“They grow up in a blink of an eye, and before you know it, you’re wishing for the days when their biggest worry was what type of ice cream to have after dinner. ”

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Final Thoughts on Kids Growing Up

As a parent, it’s hard to see your kids growing up so fast. It seems like just the other day they were little and now they’re almost adults.

My best advice is to enjoy every phase as much as you can, because none of them will last forever.

100+ Best Quotes About Kids Growing Up Too Fast

As you see your child grow, write a journal and gift it to them when they're old enough.

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Reading quotes about kids growing up helps you reminisce the good old days when you brought home a little bundle of joy wrapped in a blanket. You realize how fast time flies by, and even before you know it, your little munchkin has started walking on their own and calling out ‘mama’ and ‘dada. ’ The whole journey is full of surprising moments, curiosity, learning and wonder, and you feel immensely blessed to be a part of it. Parents often sit back and reminisce about times their child was just a small baby. But growing up has its wonders and special moments. Scroll through for a curated list of quotes that will help you encapsulate the happy memories you have of your little one’s childhood days.

101 Best Quotes About Kids Growing Up

1. “Those little feet, won’t be little forever.” ―Ashlee Edens

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2. “No one tells you that the hardest part of motherhood is when your kids grow up.” ―Anonymous

3. “Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart.” —Anonymous

4. “If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.” ―Bette Davis

5. “Let them be little for they are only little for such a little while.” —Anonymous

6. “Sometimes, You will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” ―Dr. Seuss

7. “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” —Anne Frank

8. “You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.” ―John J. Plomp

9. “As your kids grow they may forget what you said, but won’t forget how you made them feel.” ―Kevin Heath

10. “The empty nest comes quickly. Do not squander your most precious privilege of participating in the lives of your children.” ―Alan Hedquist

11. “Once a mom, always a mom. No matter how grown the kids are, they will always be your precious babies in your eyes!” —Anonymous

12. “Your son will always be your little boy and your daughters will always be your little girls!” —Felicisima Nietes De Jesus

13. “You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.” ―Polish Proverb

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14. “Cherish your children… for they are the footprints you will leave behind. ” ―Taylor Evan Fulks

15. “I constantly go between wanting you to stay my little baby forever, and being excited about all of the amazing things you’ll do in this life.” ―Anonymous

16. “I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.” ―Tina Turner

17. “The greatest gift you can give your kids is your time, your love, and your attention.” —Anonymous

18. “They’re all grown-ups now but I still have their sweet voices in my ear, the way they laughed and talked…it’s implanted in my memory…I love my kids so much.” —Emelina Fabian Frobel

19. “In 100 years from now it won’t matter what kind of clothes I wore, the type of car I drove, what house I lived in, or even how much money I had in the bank. But the world may be a little better because of the child I raised.” —Anonymous

20. “Children need models rather than critics.” —Joseph Joubert

21. “There are only 940 Saturdays between a child’s birth and her leaving for college.” ―Harley Rotbart

22. “Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them – a mother’s approval, a father’s nod – are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.” —Mitch Albom

23. “When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.” —Adele Faber

24. “Hold on to the tiny moments and cherish the little snuggles. They grow up so fast!” ―Anonymous

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25. “I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!” ―David Vitter

26. “There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way. ” ―Dave Willis

27. “Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you’re in diapers; the next day you’re gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.” —Kevin from The Wonder Years

28. “Age is a necessary but insufficient requirement for growing up. There are immature old people, and there are appropriately mature young people.” —Henry Cloud

29. “Children who grow up with plenty can learn to give, just as children who grow up receiving love can learn to express it.” —Fred Rogers

30. “That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget.” —Walt Disney

31. “Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them – certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.” —Johnny Depp

32. “Even though your child is beginning to look and act more and more like an adult, he still desperately needs your love, nurturing, and support. ” —Gina Panettieri

33. “The more solid, sensible, common-sense, loving steps we take, the greater the chances of helping our children become the kind of children we want them to be and wish we had been when we were growing up.” —Zig Ziglar

Funny Quotes On Kids Growing Up

Your children are your biggest joy, and often, they are the reason for your laughter. What better way to say thanks to them for filling your life with smiles than sharing these humorous quotes with them?

34. “As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.” —Prince William

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35. “Becoming a mom to me means that you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.” —Nia Vardalos

36. “When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.” —Tom Robbins

37. “We’ve had bad luck with children; they’ve all grown up.” —Christopher Morley

38. “You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ” —Irish saying

39. “If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!” —J.M. Barrie

40. “The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don’t have to pay taxes — naturally, no one wants to live any other way.” —Judith Martin

41. “I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.” —Jarod Kintz

42. “It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower or vacuum cleaner.” —Ben Bergor

43. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” —Franklin P. Jones

44. “A grownup is a child with layers on.” —Woody Harrelson

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45. “Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.” —Russell Baker

46. “You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going. ” —P. J. O’Rourke

47. “Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.” —Chili Davis

48. “Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; Now I have six children and no theories.” —John Wilmot

49. “All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.” —Erma Bombeck

50. “Children are a great comfort in your old age- and they help you reach it faster too.” —Lionel Kauffman

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51. “We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.” —Phyllis Diller

52. “Dear Mom, You get mad at me for not acting my age, and then start crying because I’m ‘growing up too fast.’ Sincerely, pick one!” —Anonymous

53. “Motherhood is an early retirement position. Your children do grow up.” —Colleen Parro

54. “Adults are just outdated children.” —Dr. Seuss

55. “The funny thing about kids is, they are the reason we lose it and the reason we hold it together.” —Anonymous

56. “Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.” —Phyllis Diller

57. “Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples.” ―J.M. Barrie

Inspirational Quotes About Children Growing Up

As children grow up, parents often experience some humbling moments. There are times when you learn from your little ones more than you can teach them. These are the moments that inspire you in different ways, and these inspirational quotes capture those moments.

58. “Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” —Charles R. Swindoll

59. “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” —John F. Kennedy

60. “If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” —Ig1acio Estrada

61. “Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” —Jess Lair

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62. “Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on earth, for what they believe is what they will become.” —Brooke Hampton

63. “You know who’s going to build that better world? It’s the youth. Children will do things that are now considered impossible.” —Kacey McCallister

64. “The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” —Peggy O’Mara

65. “Not every child will become a lawyer or a doctor. Teach your kids that it is okay to work with your hands and build cool stuff.” —Mike Rowe

66. “A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.” —Robert Brault

67. “Children are like wet cement whatever falls on them makes an impression.” —Haim Ginott

68. “The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. ” —Alden Nowlan

69. “Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it’s to raise kids who become great adults.” ―Andy Andrews

70. “I don’t want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.” ―Chuck Connors

71. “Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.” ―Ali Bin Abi Talib

72. “Children make your life important.” —Erma Bombeck

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73. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” —Margaret Mead

74. “Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?” —Samuel Johnson

75. “Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” —Lady Bird Johnson

76. “Sometimes we don’t let them go, but that’s what parents are here for to advise and guide because we have wisdom from experience in life you’ll always be our babies to us you all bring us such joy when you smile! God bless our children!” —Marilyn Katz O’Rourke

77. “To be able to watch your children’s children grow up is truly a blessing from above.” ―Byron Pulsifer

78. “When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” —Patrick Rothfuss

79. “There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

80. “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.” ―Virginia Woolf

81. “Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.” ―Cindy Gerard

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82. “Kids are great imitators, so give them something great to imitate.” —Anonymous

83. “All kids need a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them.” —Magic Johnson

84. “To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.” ―Euripides

85. “Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love. ” ―Zig Ziglar

86. “The greatest legacy we can leave our kids is happy memories.” —Anonymous

87. “Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they’ve learned.” ―Dorothy Nolte

88. “Your kids will become who you are; so be who you want them to be.” —Anonymous

89. “Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.” ―Kim Harrison

90. “We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” —Stacia Tauscher

91. “The final stage of wisdom is becoming a kid again.” —Maxime Lagacé

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92. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” ―Pablo Picasso

93. “The sacrifices we make today give our kids a better tomorrow.” —Anonymous

94. “A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.” —Chinese Proverb

95. “A day with your kids, no matter how big or small they are, heals your soul.” —Anonymous

96. “Children are our greatest teachers. From them, we can learn some of life’s most valuable qualities; patience, curiosity, kindness, determination, resilience, fearlessness, trust. And most importantly they teach us what it means to love and be loved unconditionally.” —Anonymous

97. “While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.” —Angela Schwindt

98. “Sometimes, we’re so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.” ―James C. Dobson

99. “When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.” ―Seth Godin

100. “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” ―C.S. Lewis

101. “The great paradox of parenting is that it moves in both slow motion and fast speed.” ―Anonymous

It takes no time for a little one to grow up. When handling a newborn, it may seem like you are stuck in the cycle of feeding-burping-cleaning forever. But, when you read about what other parents say about their kids growing up too fast, you may realize how fast time flies. Seeing your little babies grow up into kids is a bittersweet experience and parents grow along with their babies. These emotional quotes about kids growing up too fast will make you feel you are not the only one riding this emotional rollercoaster.

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Quotes about growing up. Sayings and aphorisms about growing up.

Sayings, aphorisms and quotes about growing up.

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All passions die with age; only selfishness never dies.

• Voltaire

Growing up, Selfishness, Egoism

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What we call evil is only an inevitability in our endless development.

• Franz Kafka

Growing up, Life quotes, Life, Evil, Vice, Development .

• Jan A. Komensky

Growing up, Reliability, Man

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If children grew up according to our expectations, we would only grow up geniuses.

• Johann W. Goethe

Growing up, Genius, Children, Life quotes, Morality, Expectation

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• Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Growing up, Adults, Life

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In addition, when the children suggested that I go to the sea, assuring me that it was two steps away, I never found time for this, thinking that it was about the child's two steps, that is, in fact, two steps giant; since it is known that children walk with their heads, never remembering that they also have legs and that the seven-league boots of the Thumb Boy are a myth that embodies the idea that childhood, without realizing it, can travel around the world

• George Sand

Growing up, Childhood, Myth, Journey

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It is not good to deceive elders! First you need to grow up, become a man!

• Semyon T. Altov

Growing up

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Growing up, we become more serious, and this, let me tell you, is the first step to be stupid.

• Addison Joseph

Growing up, Stupidity, Ironic quotes, First step, Seriousness

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A careless word - and a child grows up, deceived love - and a person hardens.

• André Maurois

Growing up, Children, Lies, Love, Deception, Mistakes

• John Locke

Growing up, Wise quotes, Man

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Pain is an integral part of growing up. That is how we learn.

• Dan Brown

, growing up

Cultivation - lifelong lesson
Abilities to create a feasible world,
And those who did not build their world,
willingly repains the world.

• Igor M. Guberman

Growing up, Lesson

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It would not be entirely true to say that some time ago I was wild and reckless, but now I have calmed down and become an adult. In fact, now I am even bolder and stronger than before. I make riskier and more responsible decisions. It seems to me that over the years my life in all its manifestations becomes more and more extreme.

• Angelina Jolie

Growing up, Years

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I like to grow up, become mature and therefore sane. All the events that take place in my life, I now perceive easier.

• Angelina Jolie

Growing up, Sanity, Maturity

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Why do people have to grow up, because childhood is so good? How great it is when you are not responsible for anything, when you are taken care of, when you don’t have to worry about anything, because someone big and strong has already decided everything for you. What a wonderful life it was without all these adult problems.

• Cecilia Ahern

Growing Up, Childhood, Happiness

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Getting old is sad, but it's nice to grow up.

• Brigitte Bardot

Growing Up, Life Quotes, Old Age

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Children grow up too fast. It must be banned. Forbid growing up. Then everything will be better than it is

• James M. Barry

Growing up, Children

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Every child is born a deity and then descends to a human.

• Simone de Beauvoir

Growing up, Children

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A boy becomes completely unbearable when he approaches fifty.

• Yanina Ipohorskaya

Growing up, Boy

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I grew up among a wide circle of actors, musicians, photographers, artists and theater people. Thanks to such a bohemian atmosphere, since childhood, there were no clear and straight lines for me. We proclaimed the creativity of self-expression and performed numbers in the appropriate spirit.

• Jared D. Leto

Growing up

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I lost all hope of growing up a long time ago. I lost my way and got stuck somewhere in the region for 10 years.

• Hugh Laurie

Growing Up, To Myself

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Growing up is worth at least learning to truly love.

• Vanessa Paradis

Growing up, Love

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First, a man gives up illusions, then teeth, and finally, recklessness.

• Helen Rowland

recklessness, age, age, illusion, man

Cultivation, indifference, more indifference, rather this understanding and self -desires, and their desires, and their desires, and their desires responsibility for what you say.

• Gleb Samoilov

Growing up

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Nothing matures like betrayal.

• The Strugatsky brothers

Growing up, Betrayal

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Most girls turn into women with age, but men remain forever. That's why I always envied them - because of this wonderful ability to wallow in stupidity and immaturity all my life.

• Irvine Welsh

Growing up, Stupidity

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Growing up is damn hard! It is much easier to move from one childhood to another.

• Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Growing up, Childhood

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When do we become who we are meant to be? In youth or later? In adolescence, whatever our mental abilities and temperament, we are largely dependent on education, environment, family; as adults, we create ourselves in accordance with the choice made.

• Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

growing up, choosing, personality, youth, youth

with age, you become similar to the drooling of telepusics and believe in kindness, and cookies, and cookies, and cookies, and cookies, and cookies, and cookies, and cookies, and cookies, and cookies, and cookies, and cookies, and cookies, and cookies, and cookies the word of God coming from the radio.. Shhhh!! News! Oh, a lot of yogurt was eaten in China! Can you imagine?

• Dylan Moran

Growing up, Kindness, Funny quotes

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It's all age. Strange things are happening that no one warned you about. For example, dreams become more boring! Nobody told me. At 20 or 25, you can dream about anything. That you are a swan made of honey, belching little cubs that hit each other on the ankles with compasses. When you get older, you dream for five hours that you are hanging around the supermarket, tambourine: “Where are the yogurts? They were here yesterday. Where are the yogurts? Why is this?

• Dylan Moran

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Children I definitely need to know where everything comes from. Adults, on the contrary, are interested in where everything goes.

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And our boy is already quite an adult, he already understands a lot, except for one thing: why did dad leave him and hardly remember?

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Do you know why children are always happier than adults? Yes, because they truly believe in miracles.

Cool statuses about age

Adults become not when they stop listening to their mother, but when they realize that their mother was right.

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A person has two lives, and the second begins when he realizes that there is only one life.

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Every day you become more and more convinced that life is a highway. Some slow down, others drive

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Four phases of human life: Carefree childhood. Concerned youth. Perplexed maturity. Fooled old age.

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How is life? First no luck, no luck, then HOW LUCKY, and again no luck, no luck

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Love triangle, vicious circle, financial pyramid Not life, but solid geometry.

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Childhood is a fairy tale. Youth novel. Maturity accounting report. Old age outpatient card.

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Our Earth is a place where aliens show their children how not to live.

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We live like in China: tribute at school, sun the officer, throw the traffic cop, take the doctor out, and hun the salaries.

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Your memories are just an old lantern hanging on a street corner where almost no one else ever walks.

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If a boy starts a radio-controlled helicopter at the age of 7 it is normal, at 27 it is abnormal, at 47 it is normal.

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I wonder what statuses we will have in old age? Hooray, I received a pension for all Corvalol at my expense.

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We often say: “But there will be something to remember in old age. “And in old age, bam - and sclerosis.

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Welcome to adulthood, where you will be forever tired and sleepy except when you go to bed!

Statuses about adult children

It only seems to us that we have grown up, in fact, we still continue to play catch-up, hide-and-seek, skipping ropes. But the rules have become tougher.

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Synulya joked: “Mom, if my child goes to school, and you still scold me, maybe this is not your upbringing?” Well, he robbed me

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Adults are essentially the same children, The same why, why. They are also looking for someone who could answer: Why does the daughter not sleep at night Why did the son burst into tears, Is there something after the death of loved ones, And endure it too long, If unloved work If troubles cannot be counted, but there is a lack of strength, How to find someone who believe me, show full text

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I think that sometimes each of us wants to be a child. a small adult child in warm, safe hands

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For a long time and smart, and responsible, But that only in the back did not listen! And I want to, as in childhood, Praised for what I ate.

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Long ago drowned in self-criticism, But it seems like an eternity did not cry. And I want to, as in childhood, Praised for pooping.

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For a long time already you know about the remedy, To make it easier on the heart and in the body. And I want to, as in childhood, Stroked and regretted. show full text

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I really want the participants to express their opinion. I don't like it when parades in uniform march. This is not the memory of children. This is for adults

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Sometimes we talk nonsense. Sometimes we do pranks We are adults like children. We love to fool around.

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Time is running out like water, It seems that just recently was childhood. Something that will never return, Somehow imperceptibly disappeared in an instant.

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Trains meet us somewhere, The last car takes us far away. We'll never come back here, Everything that was before, we'll have to quit.

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We are greeted by gray houses, Naked and uninhabited apartments, A commotion unknown to us before, New other landmarks. show full text

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Today I ask you to forget, That we grew up a long time ago, That everyday life rules the world, And miracles live in the cinema

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childhood We were by chance? From the world of rules and consequences I run away and catch up!

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Come on, come on, climb up the hill! Will you go standing up or weakly? Look, to the general delight They rolled down in a friendly crowd! show full text

Growing up

Growing up is the process of transition from a child's worldview to an adult's worldview, from "I can't!" to "Everything will be done", from the hope that everything will be done for you - to personal responsibility. The readiness and ability to be responsible for your actions and fulfill the duties assigned to you is one of the most important criteria for growing up.

Legally, under 18 you are a child. After 18 years - an adult.

In life, psychologically, an Adult, as opposed to a Child, is called a responsible and independent person. If you are independent and responsible, if you are 10 years old, you are an adult. If you are 30 years old, but you are not independent and responsible, you are a child.

Growing up is described in more detail by the concepts of youth, young man and adult.

Growing up is a change in the system of values, the achievement of which is directly related to the assumption of responsibility, not only for oneself, but also for other people. Growing up is determined by the skills of a person and the amount of responsibility that is assigned to him (or that he took on himself). Levels: raise yourself, feed, put in order; set yourself up for work, cheer yourself up; provide for parents; give birth and raise children; give birth and bring to mind the Project; make a direction or firm.

There are pluses and minuses in growing up. The disadvantages of growing up are perfectly described by T.V. Gagin:

“Growing up deprives a person of love. How? Not easy. But it's safe. A person grows up (not all at once, gradually) insofar as he understands one simple thing more and more deeply - both in the sense of faith and in the sense of everyday practice. He himself - by himself, as he is - DOES NOT NEED ANYONE. Nobody. Absolutely…” See

Does everyone want to grow up? - Not. There are many people who are many years old, but at the same time it is very difficult for them to part with their childhood. Not many people want to grow up, because responsibility is scary and burdensome. Children have no problems, they live easier. Therefore, many people are overage children. But there are also children who behave like adults.

How to grow up?

Growing up is facilitated by a person's striving for the future: whoever thinks about the future in a timely manner, makes efforts, takes steps towards becoming an adult.

Conversely, the rejection of the efforts that need to be made to build one's future looks like a conscious or unconscious desire to delay or delay growing up.

Adulthood presupposes Life planning — subordination to a clear plan, concern for the future, thinking through the consequences of one's decisions, etc. Therefore, becoming an adult means clearly controlling your life, managing everything that makes up life, living not only today, but also thinking about the future. Overcoming difficulties is growing up.

Age of a man: statuses

It is believed that men are less sentimental in matters relating to age. Is it so? They will try to answer the question of statuses about age for men.

"The stronger a man grows up, the more women seem attractive to him."
“There is a period when a man realizes that it is time for him to get married. At that moment, a woman understands that being alone is a privilege.”
"At 40, a man feels younger than ever. "
“Growing up of a man is indifference to where his wife has gone. As long as you don't drag it with you."
“Twenty-year-old men, when meeting a girl, add age to themselves. What can not be said about the thirty-year-olds.
"A man's sense of his youth depends on whether he has lived all this time with one woman or several."

Statuses about age and old age

Statuses › Phrases and quotes about the age of a woman and a man - age status

In this collection you will find both serious and funny statuses about the age of a woman.

Quotes about age - funny jokes and aphorisms about age

I'm not at the age when stupid things are done unconsciously. I am at the age when they are done consciously and with pleasure.

A real woman is like a violin - age only increases its value and improves its sound.

Each of us atones for the guilt of his youth.

Behaving decently at my age is no longer decent.

Now I know exactly what puberty is. Transitional age is when wrinkles have already appeared, but acne has not yet passed.

Seventeen-year-olds are too young to be allowed to drink, watch f*ck, make contracts, but mature enough to choose the profession of a lifetime.

I'm not luring anyone, I'm not looking for anyone Photo I don't decorate, I don't want to photoshop! I do not reduce my age, I do not shout about it - I am silent. I am so - melted. I want to be real!

Old age is no worse than youth: each age has its own discoveries.

Transitional age is when a holiday, a family at the table, and you sit sad and begin to understand that you no longer want Coca-Cola, but they still don’t pour vodka.

Youth dreams of what will never come true, old age remembers what has never come true.

Each age has its charms, but in youth they are also strangers.

Youth, rising wave. Behind the wind, ahead of the rocks.

How short is the time between when a person is still too young and when he is already too old.

There is no point in hiding how old you are, there is a risk that you will be given more.

First we believe the cuckoo, and then we hope that she was wrong

The sad thing is not that old age is approaching, but that youth is leaving.

Do not judge age by years, so that you will not be judged.

Youth is a gift of nature, and maturity is a work of art.

Old age is not such a great misfortune, if we take into account another possibility.

I am not afraid. When you live so long, you lose a lot, including the feeling of fear.

Age looked out of the mirror with a mockery.

About age with humor

A mature man: a creature that hopes to find a beautiful girl under the tree, but finds a tie.

With age, they think less and less about what is in front and more and more about what is ahead.

Age is an invention of boring people.

A woman has no age from birth. The older she is, the more mysterious she is. And brighter than the colors of inspirational passion, like the daring taste of a rare wine

The most disgusting age begins when you are no longer allowed on children's carousels.

I am at a wonderful age: I have already grown from a chants girl, but I have not yet grown up to an old girl.

Even at the age of 70, he regularly and regularly performed his marital duty: he took out the trash in the morning and washed the dishes in the evening.

At sixty, you begin to understand that your grandfather, who lived to be 80, died not so old.

Maturity is not a sign of age, but of intelligence!

A Real Woman has three ages: Youth! Second Youth and Eternal Youth!

We enter the various ages of our lives, like newborns, with no experience behind us, no matter how old we are.

The life of a teenager is hard, especially the first 30 years!

A woman is young as long as she can take a lover.

I can't understand women who write in the age column 100 years. After all, as the heroine of the film “Love and Doves” said, “it’s clear that you’re not sixteen”

Age does not interfere with the maturation of the mind

Age is when you spend more on doctors than on girls.

Age can never be a hindrance, neither being old nor young.

Transitional age is when in the heat you do not understand what you want: ice cream or beer.

Sayings about a woman's age

A woman has three ages: youth, youth and "how good you look"

Mature age is the period between the end of the illusions of youth and the beginning of the hallucinations of old age.

The older you are, the less you dream about your peers.

When we are young, we move mountains, and then we try to get out from under them.

Your face at twenty is given to you by nature; what it will be like at fifty is up to you.

In youth, all clocks are behind, in old age they are in a hurry.

I'm still young, but the age of my peers makes me sad.

A woman is young as long as she is loved.

The older you are, the stronger the wind becomes - and it is always oncoming.

Years take their toll. I just don’t understand how they distinguish theirs from mine.

The age of laziness is not a hindrance!

Every adult is a child who behaves correctly only in public.

Young people should not be looked down upon. It is very possible that, having matured, they will become outstanding husbands.

Age is a state of mind, sometimes in conflict with the body.

Everyone gets smarter with age, but not everyone lives to this age.

It is impossible to imagine that I am ten years older than I was ten years ago.

The most difficult job for women! Everyone needs 18-year-old girls with 30 years of work experience, with two degrees and adult children!

Kindness and intelligence are characteristics of old age. At twenty, a woman is much more interested in being heartless and frivolous.

Sayings about age and old age — age status

Wisdom, oddly enough, comes to us with two "G": genes and years

And before fifty, I thought that I would always be eighteen.

Only one who has achieved nothing by reaching the age of forty or fifty does not deserve respect.

Life is divided into three parts: when you believe in Santa Claus, when you don't believe in Santa Claus and when you are already Santa Claus.

And before I was fifty, I thought that I would always be eighteen.

An adult is one who has stopped growing vertically, but not horizontally.

The older you get, the more stupid the world around you and the more beautiful the girls.

The age of a woman who criticizes everyone is called the critical age.

If a woman treats her age with humor, then it really is not funny.

The most beautiful age of a woman is the age of love.

Einstein was right: with age, a person's energy turns into his mass.

Old age is a parody of life.

The secret to eternal youth is to live virtuously, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Statuses about growing up and passing years - jokes about old age

I was born on January 30, but I look much younger.

Age is when you don't have the strength to copy an old notebook into a new one.

You can fall into childhood, but not into youth.

Over thirty is a great age. Still young and beautiful, but no longer a fool!

You can fall into childhood, but not into youth.

While you are young, honor the one who is weak and gray, To be respected in your declining years.

Being a fool is the normal state of a woman at any age!

Often wrinkles do not arise from old age, but from sad thoughts about its approach.

The main disadvantage of women is that they are not young and smart at the same time. They take turns doing it.

A woman does not change with age, but with a man.

Even now I no more envy the strength of the young than I used to envy the strength of a bull or an elephant.

Better to be old than dead.

At 15 I was good. And at 30 I'm twice as good!

The best age is when you already know a lot and can still do a lot.

Round dates make a person zero.

At my age, a woman should be either smart or smart. Here's what I'm thinking of joining.

A woman never stops talking about her age and never mentions it.

Apparently such an age, everything is for the evil of adults.

Gray hair in one place, hormone in another.

The most sensitive to the number of years lived are, of course, women. They notice the smallest wrinkles near the eyes, they are saddened by the rapid maturation of children, and the question makes them blush: “How old are you?”.

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Leave a comment is the period between the end of the illusions of youth and the beginning of the hallucinations of old age.

The older you are, the less you dream about your peers.

When we are young, we move mountains, and then we try to get out from under them.

Your face at twenty is given to you by nature; what it will be like at fifty is up to you.

In youth, all clocks are behind, in old age they are in a hurry.

I am still young, but the age of my peers makes me sad.

A woman is young as long as she is loved.

The older you are, the stronger the wind gets - and it is always oncoming.

Years take their toll. I just don’t understand how they distinguish theirs from mine.

The age of laziness is not a hindrance!

Every adult is a child who only behaves correctly in public.

Young people should not be looked down upon. It is very possible that, having matured, they will become outstanding husbands.

Age is a state of mind, sometimes in conflict with the body.

Everyone gets smarter with age, but not everyone lives to this age.

It is impossible to imagine that I am ten years older than I was ten years ago.

The most difficult job for women! Everyone needs 18-year-old girls with 30 years of work experience, with two degrees and adult children!

Kindness and intelligence are the properties of old age. At twenty, a woman is much more interested in being heartless and frivolous.

The purpose of parenting is the development of the child

Quotes about parenting give an idea of what it should be and when it is most effective. After all, education is not only and not so much moralizing and reading morals, but the ability to understand what children really need and provide them with an opportunity for further development.

"It is much easier to preach from the pulpit, to carry away from the platform, to teach from the pulpit than to bring up one child."

Alexander Herzen

"Education means feeding the child's abilities, and not creating those new abilities that he does not have."

Giuseppe Mazzini

"A child needs your love the most when he deserves it least."

Erma Bombeck

“Let the first lesson of a child be obedience, then the second may be what you think is necessary.”

Thomas Fuller

"Children need more role models than criticism."

Joseph Joubert

“All the difficulties of upbringing arise from the fact that parents, not only not correcting their shortcomings, but even justifying them in themselves, want not to see these shortcomings in their children. ”

Leo Tolstoy

“Don't make an idol out of a child; when he grows up, he will require sacrifices.

Pierre Boiste

“Do you know what is the surest way to make your child unhappy? This is to teach him not to meet refusal in anything.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Educating is the most difficult thing. You think - well, everything is over now! It wasn’t there - it’s just beginning! ”

Mikhail Lermontov

“Parents often confuse the concepts of “upbringing” and “education” and think that they gave the child upbringing when they forced him to study so many subjects. Hence the frequent disappointment of parents in their children in subsequent years.

Anton Rubinstein

"Sow an act and you reap a habit, sow a habit and you reap a character, sow a character and you reap a destiny."

William Thackeray

"If you want to raise good kids, spend half the money and twice the time on them.

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