Growing up Quote by J.M. Barrie

“Being classy is my teenage rebellion.”

— Rebecca McKinsey

“Right now, just speak gently your words of wisdom to the youngsters. Sooner or later, those words will arrive at the right place in…

— Toba Beta

“You're not going to turn into a wanker, are you?" says Tone, opening a can of larger. "What do you mean?" "He means you're…

— David Nicholls

“But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had…

— Anton Chekhov

“I'm turning into an old man. I own four pairs of oxfords, my stories get a little long winded, and my neighbors play their…

— Christy Hall

“I read and talked into the microphone and was gracious to the local rich, the English faculty and the college president, and the students…

— Adam Begley

“My feelings-let's hold on to this idea of them as shuffling Victorians, let's make them servants, an entire uniformed household staff- were fresh, raw,…

— Joan Wickersham

“It was one of those nonsense things that people said, like “It’s not you, it’s me” and “You’re too good for me.” It meant,…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“There's always this build-up to your eighteenth, and when it finally comes around you realize it's just the day after you were seventeen.”

— Lola Jaye

“They were smart and sophisticated, with an air of independence about them, and so casual about their looks and clothes and manners as to…

— Colleen Moore

“Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Those who express even a little of themselves never become old-fashioned.”

— Robert Henri