Time passes by really quickly for parents. Your little bundle of joy has grown up, and you are wondering when the time flew by. The growing years of your child filled with joyous memories are precious. You have captured every moment with your kid in your mind. All the snuggles, laugh, and naughtiness will be cherished forever. However, they are some lows too being a parent. There will be times when you will wonder what to do as a parent or are clueless. But your child will always look towards you for guidance and wisdom. You can rely on quotes about children growing up to inspire your child to be their own person in those times. Growing up quotes capture the essence of being a kid and help the kids to understand their thoughts.
Best Quotes And Sayings That Talk About Kids Growing-Up Too Fast
Adolescence can be a trying time for both kids and parents. Growing up can be especially hard for kids as they may not understand certain things. They may feel anxious, confused or clueless with their changing bodies, thoughts and experiences. In such times quotes about sons and daughters growing up can help them sort out their confusion and inspire them.
Some quotes about watching your child grow up that you can take inspiration from are:
1. “Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.” ― Cindy Gerard
2. “To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.” ― Euripides
3. “I still don’t know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.” ― Makoto Shinkai
4. “I think the arts are very important for children growing up.” ― Stephen Schwartz
5. “If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.” ― Bette Davis
6. “Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience…and pimples.” ― J.M. Barrie
7. “When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.” ― Seth Godin
8. “Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise, everyone would do it.” ― Kim Harrison
9. “Growing up is losing some illusions, to acquire others.” ― Virginia Woolf
10. “I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.” ― Robert Rodriguez
11. “Motherhood: the days are long, but the years are short.” ― Gretchen Rubin
12. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” ― Dr Seuss
13. “Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they’ve learned.” ― Dorothy Nolte
14. “You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.” ― John J. Plomp
15. “I don’t want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.” ― Chuck Connors
16. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” ― Pablo Picasso
17. “As your kids grow, they may forget what you said, but won’t forget how you made them feel.” ― Kevin Heath
18. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ― `Robert Brault
19. “To be able to watch your children’s children grow up is truly a blessing from above.” ― Byron Pulsifer
20. “I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.” ― Tina Turner
21. “Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; its to raise kids who become great adults.” ― Andy Andrews
22. “We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” ― Stacia Tauscher
23. “Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that’s broken.” ― Mike Huckabee
24. “Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.” ― Ali ibn Abi Talib
25. “Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.” ― Cassandra Clare
26. “One of these days we’re gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today.” ― Kenny Chesney
27. “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” ― Angela Schwindt
28. “There no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” ― Dave Willis
29. “Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing.” ― Phyllis Diller
30. “Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.” ― B. B. King
31. “Children are the Shades of both mother and father, whether poor or rich every one had a wonderful creative life growing up with them.” ― Kishore Bansal
32. “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” ― Albert Einstein
33. “That’s the trick of growing up. Nothing stays the same…You see the faults in everything. Including yourself.” ― Austin Chant
34. “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
35. “Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.” ― Ally Condie
36. “I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.” ― Robert Rodriguez
37. “You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.” ― Ta-Nehisi Coates
38. “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
39. “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
40. “It’s much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.” ― Stephen Chbosky
41. “We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
42. “When you are growing up, there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.” ― Keith Richards
43. “I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.” ― Louisa May Alcott
44. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” ― Roman Payne
45.” 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
46. “Cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow, for babies grow up we’ve learned to our sorrow. So quiet down, cobwebs-dust, go to sleep. I’m rocking my baby, and babies don’t keep!” ― Ruth Hamilton
47. “I don’t want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had – Plato’s white grandfatherly God – because that God is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can’t trust him with your kids.” ― William P. Young
48. “It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” ― Nicholas Sparks
49. “I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.” ― Jodi Picoult
50. “As a child growing up among artists, I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.” ― Robin G. Collingwood
51. “Growing up is never straight forward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are certain memories that you’ll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that there’s nothing you can do except watch them.” ― Alden Nowlan
52. “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
53. “Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.” ― Horace
54. “Motherhood is an early retirement position. Your children do grow up.” ― Colleen Parro
55. “Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history.” ― Ray Merritt
56. “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them”― Lady Bird Johnson
57. “If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.” ― P.D. James
58. “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
59. “Kids: They dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.” ― William Stafford
60. “Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.” ― Louisa May Alcott
These growing up quotes are helpful to kids to help them to be their own person. They are helpful for parents, too, to use these wise words to inspire their kids and sort their confusions.
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