Boyhood Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I had been very grown-up when I was in primary school. But as I continued through secondary-school, I in fact became less grown-up. And…

— Hiroki Kawakami

“It's so strange: grown-ups trying to become young, young ones trying to grow up and all the time, whatever people want, time moves forward,…

— Anonymous

“Now that I'm an adult, I can finally be the kid I always wanted to be.”

— Ksenia Anske

“I'm starting to realize that I can't be a child forever, that I don't want to be a child forever. I've had my turn,…

— Michael J. Collins

“I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.I guess that…

— Cassandra Clare

“When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a…

— Anonymous

“I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset,…

— Bette Midler

“You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“The idea of not being a kid anymore terrifies me. I am an adult and I have been hurled out of the world of…

— Kelley York

“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.”

— Charles Finch

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

— Trevor David Dawson