Growth quotes
223 growth quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Garden State
“You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of a sudden even though you have some place where you put your shit, that idea of home is gone.”
“All mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults than we would like. It's the only way we grow.”
- From the movie: Morning Glory
“You had a dream, you know? Great. When you were eight, it was adorable. When you were eighteen, it was inspiring. At twenty-eight, it's officially embarrassing. And I just want you to stop before we get to heartbreaking.”
- From the movie: Matinee
“You think grown-ups have it all figured out? That's just a hustle, kid. Grown-ups are making it up as they go along, just like you. You remember that, and you'll do fine.”
- From the movie: Boogeyman
“It's time to grow up. Nothing supernatural happened. These feelings you're having, they're going to get worse unless you face this. Go home Tim. Spend one night in that house. It will help.”
- From the movie: Imaginary Heroes
“- Tim Travis: People are so stupid. I can't bear to live around them any more.
- Sandy Travis: They only get worse.” - From the movie: I Love You, Man
“Peter matured sexually at a very early age. I remember taking him swimming when he was 12 years old, kid had a bush like a 40 years old Serbian.”
- From the movie: Great Expectations
“I put aside the fantasy and the wealthy, and the heavenly girl who did not want me. None of it would happen to me again. I'd seen through it. I elected to grow up.”
- From the movie: My Dog Skip
“Why in childhood and youth do we wish time to pass so quickly, we want to grow up so fast, yet as adults we wish just the opposite?”
- From the movie: Hook
“- Peter Banning: You're not old enough to shave! What are you doing with a sword? And flying around... this is an insurance nightmare! What is this, some sort of Lord of the Flies preschool? Where are your parents? Who's in charge, here? No! No, Mr. Skunkhead with too much mousse. You are just a punk kid. I want to speak to a grown-up!
- Rufio:...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Superman Returns
- From the movie: The Company You Keep
“- Mimi Lurie: The struggle doesn't end just because you got tired of it.
- Nick Sloan: I didn't get tired of it. I grew up.” - From the movie: The Perfect Man
“Look at you all grown up. Got your little speed bumps and everything.”
- From the movie: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
“When you are young, your potential is infinite. You might do anything, really. You might be Einstein. You might be DiMaggio. Then you get to an age where what you might be gives way to what you have been. You weren't Einstein. You weren't anything. That's a bad moment.”
- From the movie: Moneyball
“We're all told at some point in time that we can no longer play the children's game, we just don't know when that's gonna be. Some of us are told at eighteen, some of us are told at forty, but we're all told.”
- From the movie: Elf
“- Carolyn: Your costume is pretty.
- Buddy: It's not a costume. I'm an elf. Well, technically, I'm a human, but I was raised by elves.
- Carolyn: I'm a human... raised by humans.” - From the movie: More American Graffiti
“- John Milner: It's the little twerp!
- Carol: Don't little twerp me, John, I've grown.
- John Milner: A little bit.” - From the movie: The Truth About Cats & Dogs
“You gotta have a boyfriend, don't you? Otherwise it's just you and a cat and, before you know, 40 candles on your birthday cake.”
- From the movie: Jayne Mansfield's Car
- From the movie: Mermaids
“See that woman right there? That's my mother and when I grow up... I want to be just like yours.”
- From the movie: The Women
“Stephen's tired of himself. Tired of feeling the same things in himself. Time comes when a man's got to feel something new, and he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old.”
- From the movie: The Battle of Shaker Heights
“One day I'm going to be a beautiful butterfly, right? But first I have to be a pupa. And pupas don't really go out that much, so I don't think I'm going to be going out that much. Pupa, the awkward adolescence of the insect world.”
- From the movie: Atonement
“How old do you have to be before you know the difference between right and wrong? Do you have to be eighteen? Do you have to be eighteen before you can bring yourself to own up to a lie? There are soldiers of eighteen-years-old enough to be left to die on the side of the road!”
- From the movie: The King and I
“- The King of Siam: Someday, you too will know everything.
- Prince Chululongkorn: When do I know that I know everything?
- The King of Siam: When you are king.” - From the movie: Crossfire Trail
“It's a wonder to me you lived much past 10 years old.”
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