![]() ![]() Otherwise, everyone would do it.” - Kim HarrisonĢ1. “I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.” - John GreenĢ0. “When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.” - Tom Robbinsġ9. “Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.” - Cassandra Clareġ8. “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” - J.D. Read -> 40 Quotes to Help If You are Experiencing PTSDġ6. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. “For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.” - Fyodor Dostoyevskyġ5. “Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.” - Daniel Blackġ4. “The trick is growing up without growing old.” - Casey Stengelġ3. “Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.” - Russell Bakerġ2. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.” - L.M. “That’s one of the things we learn as we grow older, how to forgive. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot.” - Ray Krocġ0. “As long as you’re green, you’re growing. “Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.” - Sylvia Plathĩ. ![]() “I think people make their own faces, as they grow.” - Enid BlytonĨ. “Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.” - Tom Stoppardħ. But I don’t think we make any fewer when we’re grown up.” - Jodi PicoultĦ. “Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you’re young. “Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.” - Cassandra Clareĥ. “Even though you’re growing up, you should never stop having fun.” - Nina Dobrevģ. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.” - Roger ZelaznyĢ. “I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. Yet, through it all, we gain freedom, blossom, and grow into the ultimate loving being imaginable! And, someday when you have children of your own, the love and beauty will continue for generations ahead. These quotes about growing up serve as little reminders of the awkwardness of youth and adolescent growing pains we mastered. From taking your first driving test to experiencing love for the very first time, these life lessons will always remain in your heart and mind. Each little milestone bringing with it a lifetime of fond memories to treasure in the future. Review first appeared online February 2017 – now republished here.Adulthood is without a doubt one of the hardest things to overcome. Although the poem is not really a cheerful one, it does explain the reality of abandonment. I wrote it some time ago but my sentiments on this issue have never changed. Many animals, dogs especially, were bought as companions during the lockdown, but when restrictions were lifted or when the animals grew up it seems that some are now being abandoned and it’s such a sad thing. Every year people are asked to not buy a pet ‘just for Christmas’ but now, since the pandemic there are worries that the same is happening now. These animals, don’t deserve to be left out in the cold but many times when a small puppy or kitten is initially bought as a gift, the owners don’t realise how difficult it will be do look after them as adults. Although this poem focuses on replacement, the fact is that every year many animals are abandoned to the streets or shelters after becoming unwanted by their owners. Today’s poem is one that as an animal lover, I couldn’t help but feel especially passionate about. ![]()
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