A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Growing up is hard. Otherwise everyone would do it.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
The question isn’t so much, Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult you want your child to grow up to be?
It’s not a question of God ‘sending’ us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.
I don’t know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you’ll be the first to find out.
There needs to be more variety on television so young girls growing up don’t feel pressured to look one specific way. Tall, thin, curvy, short, whatever you are, you are beautiful.
Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our relationships with them will determine whether they grow up to oppress and be oppressed or to liberate and be liberated.
I’m a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn’t comfortable, my mom had to work so hard and I woke up one day and decided I was not going to come home until I could help her pay the bills.
Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team’s performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.
Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt.
I wasn’t aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre. But when you grow up, like I did, in front of 100 million people since the age of 5, you’re automatically different.
I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.