Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive…

There are trees that grows in the desert, surviving and growing in the hush conditions however in the end they grow. So as we…

— Simphiwe

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

— James M. Barrie

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

— Mark Vonnegut

I've always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you…

— Bjork

Here's the problem with phones - they are a ready-made diversion from the considerably harder work of growing a business.

— Michael Gerber

Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

— Liya Kebede

If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“If you survive a childhood like mine relatively unscathed, you’re lucky, and as soon as you can make up rules for yourself, that’s what…

— Grace Jones

No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“A friendship can't survive on childhood memories alone. We have to create new experiences, or the friendship will shrivel up.”

— Sarah Mlynowski

“Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it…

— Roddy Doyle

That's what actually caused me to run for office is, you know, my family story, the experience of growing up in a family where…

— Ted Cruz

“It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I…

— William Faulkner

It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview,…

— Matt Dillon

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

— Robin Quivers