Growth quotes

“I'm gonna stay the same... You like me now but, you won't like me later. You're gonna grow up... I'm not.”

Kevin Bacon - Ricky Schroth

“- Principal Holmstead: Growing up is a hard enough thing as it is.
- Kelly Ernswiler: Is that what your box of tissues is for?”
Hattie Winston - Principal Holmstead
Shia LaBeouf - Kelly Ernswiler

- Charlie: Whatever happened to all that stuff you said you were gonna do? Remember what I used to call you? "Cloud-ia"? 'Cause you always had your head in the clouds, always talking about getting out of here, seeing some of the world... what happened to that girl?
- Claudia: I was eighteen-years-old and I grew up, that's what happened.
Edward Burns - Charlie
Lauren Holly - Claudia

“Grow up, get over yourself.”
Charlie Cox - Tristan

“- Peter Pan: Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.
- Wendy Darling: Never is an awfully long time.”
Jeremy Sumpter - Peter Pan
Rachel Hurd-Wood - Wendy Darling

Do you know, in Sanskrit the root of the verb "to be" is the same as "to grow" or "to make grow".
Himself - Andre Gregory

- Will Stanton: Even if I find the fifth sign, I have no idea how to find the sixth.
- Merriman Lyon: When I first saw you I thought, I thought, "No, a boy, not a warrior". I was wrong. You've come a long way, both as The Seeker and as Will Stanton. I believe in you, Will. You'll find what you need.
Alexander Ludwig - Will Stanton
Frances Conroy - Miss Greythorne

“- Edna Maverick: It really wasn't that easy for him growing up. Like I said before, he never really knew his father.
- Cody Maverick: I'm not really the person to ask about it, truthfully, because I was too young to remember. I'm not the only kid on the island whose dad was eaten.”
Dana Belben - Edna Maverick
Shia LaBeouf - Cody Maverick

“Act your age, not your shoe size.”
Christina Ricci - Kate Flax

“I know that some of the teachers around here can be pretty trying for you sometimes. But you've got to learn to work in the system, not against it.”
Hattie Winston - Principal Holmstead

“I bet there's not a single night where you can close your eyes tight enough without seeing my little boy's face. I'm gonna give you a chance to know your son. If you live today, you'll get to know your son. And if you don't, I'll raise him as my own.”

Mickey Rourke - Stavros

“A baby holds your hands, and then suddenly, there's this huge man lifting you off the ground, and then he's gone. Where's that son?”
Himself - Andre Gregory

“- Dr. Jaquith: If you had deliberately and maliciously planned to destroy your daughter's life, you couldn't have done it more completely.
- Mrs. Henry Vale: How? By having exercised a mother's rights?
- Dr. Jaquith: A child has rights, a person has rights, to discover her own mistakes, to make her own way, to grow and blossom in her own...” (continue)(continue reading)
Claude Rains - Dr. Jaquith
Gladys Cooper - Mrs. Henry Vale

“I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.”
Billy Crystal - Sam 'Sammy' Kamin

“- Goofy: What the map says... we will follow.
- Max Goof: That's very mystical and everything, Dad, but there's seriously this party I have to...
- Goofy: Oh, there will be plenty of time for parties when you're older, Maxie. Why, when I was your age, I've never even been invited to a party. Look at me, now!”
Bill Farmer - Goofy
Jason Marsden - Max Goof

“- Papa Mousekewitz: For you, Fievel, a new hat. And not just any new hat. A new hat that has been in the family for three generations. It belonged to me, my father, and my father's father, and now it belongs to you. Happy Hannukah.
- Fievel Mousekewitz: It's too big.
- Papa Mousekewitz: You'll grow.”
Nehemiah Persoff - Papa Mousekewitz
Phillip Glasser - Fievel Mousekewitz

“He gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing.”

Steve Carrell - Frank Ginsberg

“Quite the prince you've become, my little Nemo.”
Bernard Erhard - King Morpheus

“Twelve's the new twenty.”

Abigail Breslin - Little Rock

“- Anne Shirley: Why do people have to grow up and marry, change?
- Gilbert Blythe: Oh, you'd change. If someone ever admitted that they were head over heels for you, you'd be swept off your feet in a moment.
- Anne Shirley: I would not, and I defy anyone who would try and make me change.”
Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
Jonathan Crombie - Gilbert Blythe

“Why don't you never play with me any more? I like to play with you. Doesn't Momma like you? I like you. When I grow up I want to be just like you.”

Freddie Burke Frederick - Junior Sims

“We're down in the mud, rolled over, rolled over, the dog is fighting, biting, scratching, kicking and I'm screaming, crying, grabbing to run to get a stand up with following with my elbow on him. Here's his neck break. He's dead. He's not breathing, he's not biting. I'm covered up with blood. I stand up, wipe the blood off. I licked it. And my...” (continue)(continue reading)

Gary Busey - Doc Hawkins

“How are we supposed to grow up if we're not allowed to go into the world, try new things and take some risks?”
Kimberly J. Brown - Marnie Piper

“Nobody ever listens to a teenager. Everybody thinks you should be happy just because you're young. They don't see the wars that we fight every single day. And one day, my war will end. And I won't die. And I will not tolerate abuse from anyone. I am strong.”
Vanetta Smith - Brandy Ross

“Along the way you stop thinking about being tough and all that. It stops being the point. You get past the silliness of it all. But then, after, you realize that's what you are.”
Vin Diesel - Taylor