Childhood Quote by Angela Hoke

“part of growing to maturity, part of growing up, requires that we recognize and accept that we cannot have it all.”

— Matthew Kelly

“Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into it.”

— Gail Godwin

“Oh hours of childhood, when behind each shape more than the past appeared and what streamed out before us was not the future. We…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“People don't grow up. They just get taller.”

— M. Remy

“Growing old is inevitable, growing up is not.”

— C.M. Gray

“Growing up ruins everything”

— Betty Smith

“Adults like to say that childhood passes quickly, that it's over in the blink of an eye. I can't agree. When you become an…

— Sergey Grechishkin

“Childhood is a process of slowly recomposing oneself out of the borrowed materials of the world.”

— Nicole Krauss

“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.”

— John Boyne

“The idea of not being a kid anymore terrifies me. I am an adult and I have been hurled out of the world of…

— Kelley York

“Don't grow up too fast, Darling. Age is inevitable, but if you nurture a childlike heart, you'll never, ever grow old.”

— Beth Hoffman

“Children have the unforgivable habit of growing up”

— Bjarne Reuter