Your mother didn't raise you to be a child forever.

“My mother didn’t raise no fool. She raised a chicken.”

— Erin Lynn

My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.

— John Updike

“I didn’t want to invade his privacy; I didn’t want to fight with him; I didn’t want anyone else to ever hurt him. I…

— Jodi Picoult

I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and…

— Johnny Depp

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Child, if you forever hide in the shadows, watching life through a window, you will miss the many lessons learned by simply living.”

— Nancy Wald

To have a child is to forever have your heart go walking around outside your body.

— Nishan Panwar

“Whichever way I went, there would be sadness and a sense of loss. Was this a part of growing up—the agony of making such…

— Anonymous

“I'm starting to realize that I can't be a child forever, that I don't want to be a child forever. I've had my turn,…

— Michael J. Collins

I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to…

— James A. Owen

“Jenna, you’re my daughter and if I didn’t raise my hand to you, then no man will.”

— Heidi McLaughlin

Shout out to the fathers that didn't raise us

— Earl Sweatshirt

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

— Anne McCaffrey

My mama didn't raise any fools and she didn't raise any heroes.

— Amanda Hocking

“It wasn't her fault if she seemed less than human, it was the fault of them that did this to her, and them that…

— Hillary Jordan