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Growing Up Quotes by Jodi Picoult
- The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.
- I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow…
- My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
- Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
- Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up
- All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your…
- Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point…
- Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my…
- Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.
- I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to…
- it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now…
- ...as it turned out, growing up was just as she'd feared. One day when your alarm clock rang, you got up and realized you had…
- No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and…
More Growing Up Quotes
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. — Chinua Achebe
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very… — Margaret Atwood
- Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. — Diane Ackerman
- Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. — Richard Bach