Adolescence Quote by Gerry Boyle

“There was something about the people you grew up around, the ones you'd seen throughout your childhood, the folks you couldn't remember not knowing.…

— J.R. Ward

“...they were too young then to know what they would ultimately need from a barren and heart-sore life...”

— Frank O'Hara

“I always intended to grow up with my kids, not old with them.”

— Trevor David Dawson

“I realized how much it must suck to be a parent. You devote everything to your kids, who just end up growing up and…

— Sara Taylor

“You weren’t always born to the right parents. And parents didn’t necessarily get the kids they were meant to raise.”

— Judy Blume

“Mothers are o loving and kind they never want their kids to grow up.”

— Donnajo Calhoun

“I’m not a little child anymore. I know that she means they might be dead, not just in another place somewhere, but it doesn’t…

— Jennifer Roy

“It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I…

— William Faulkner

“Losing a parent, I guess it makes you realize none of us is gonna be immortal.”

— Mary Kay Andrews

“Parents have no idea how little they know about the people they gave life to.”

— Laura Tims

“All children grow up, or they die, or both. All children, except one.”

— Christina Henry

“Childhood slips away when death settles in.”

— Sahar Delijani