...[their] children were not growing up or being brought…

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

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what…

— Maya Angelou

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak…

— Hans Rosling

Watching your children growing up makes you aware of time passing. You think, 'Oh, God, look at them now! He won't be like this…

— Roger Allam

We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up…

— Alison Gopnik

Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.

— Sam Trammell

Seeing my sons grow I wish I´d be able to secure all children growing up safely.

— David Beckham

Some parents find it difficult to understand that children are Growing Up and not Growing Down.

— Terry Mark

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

— Stephen Schwartz

“You could not moralize children out of growing up. Or teach them how to do it.”

— Stephen King

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

— Beverly Cleary

When the children were growing, I didn't want to speak about the family.

— Jocelyn Wildenstein

He kissed me, so gently at first that I melted. I pressed close against him as the kiss deepened, curling my arms around his…

— L.A. Weatherly

Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.

— John Updike

Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din…

— Walt Whitman