All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
James Hillman

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
Thorstein Veblen

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.
Janice Dickinson

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle

I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm.
Susan Smith

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.
Mario Lemieux

If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.
Heath Ledger

If you're just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.
Heath Ledger

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
James A. Garfield

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
Edward W. Howe

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.
Brian Eno

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.
Billy Corgan

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.
Jennifer Lopez

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
Sting

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.
Jock Sturges

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Madame de Stael

It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.
Helena Bonham Carter

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
John Acton

You've got to grow up sometime.
Winona Ryder