Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

“You get older, but you don't ever feel grown up”

— Megan McCafferty

“When you're young you don't realize that at every age you are always in the present, and in that sense no older;”

— Roger Ebert

“I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe…

— Justin Smith

“As I get older I'm starting to sense that being a grown-up isn't nearly as much fun as children want to believe.”

— Wendy Mass

“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

“One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face.”

— Mercedes Lackey

“It’s a comforting thought knowing that no matter how old I get, I can always get older.”

— Jarod Kintz

“How strange it is that when I was a child I tried to be like a grownup, yet as soon as I ceased to…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I keep waiting to feel old, to feel like a grown-up, but I don't yet. Do you think that's the big secret adults keep…

— Eleanor Brown

“When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.”

— Michael Morpurgo

“When I turn thirty, in thirty days or so, I might be feeling old, so I’ll probably call my grandma up, because as old…

— Jarod Kintz

“When you’re old, do you really want to look back at your life and realize that you were never young?”

— Kyra Davis