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Growing Up Quotes by Mark Twain
- No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.
- Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
- When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be…
- Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
- I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend…
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
- Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. — Russell Baker
- Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;… — James A. Baldwin
- One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when… — Christian Bale
- And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy… — Alan Ball