Growing Up Quotes

“Being a teenager is an awkward time.”

“All children, except one, grow up.”

“All children, except one, grow up.”

“Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.”

“When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great, And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.”

“A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.”

“That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”

“When you're a teenager, you're still in the process of discovering yourself.”

“One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.”

“I am tired of being tiny, I am sick of being small.”

“I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm not a man, yet. I'm in a limbo.”

“I learned how to be a woman in front of the public.”

“I was an adult when I was a child. I was a child when I was an adult.”

“Adolescence is a plague on the senses.”

“I'm not a girl, not yet a woman.”

“I've had to grow up and be a man. To be a man, you have to kill the boy.”

“Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.”

“I'm not a kid anymore. I'm a woman. I'm an artist. And I was not that person who was just Frank Zappa's daughter.”