Growth quotes

“They hit puberty, seem to lose all respect for you; me and my boy survived it, you will too.”

Luke Askew - Sheriff Smalls

“Most adults tend to romanticize childhood, which is absolutely delusional. I mean, most childhood fears are as great or more so than adult fears.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Peter McGowan

“My parents had basically given up on children when I came along, so my mother always called me her 'gift from God'. That really stuck with me and when I was eight I told her I had a feeling I was supposed to return the favor. She was so happy she cried. My dad just wanted to know if working for God came with dental.”
Edward Norton - Father Brian Finn

“- Sam Dawson: You've grown.
- Lucy: Have I?
- Sam Dawson: Yeah, 'cause your ears are bigger and your eyes are older.”
Dakota Fanning - Lucy
Sean Penn - Sam Dawson

“- Lucy: B, when you grow up would you like to be a shepherd?
- Bea: No, I don't think so.”
Kate Winslet - Lucy
Bella Riza - Bea

“- Peaches: You remeber when we first met.
- Shame: Yeah. I busted you stuffin' CD's in your underwear.
- Peaches: Well whatever. I liked you. And I was only 16 and I knew it wouldnt work. Now, I'm 22 going on 23. Can't you see how much I've grown?
- Shame: You mean you ain't wearin' that trainer no more?”
Jada Pinkett Smith - Peaches
Keenen Ivory Wayans - Shame

“What's wrong, Jayboy? Don't got no hair on your inch worm yet?”
Victor Rasuk - Tony

“One day you're changing their diapers, the next they're leaving for college.”
Bill Farmer - Goofy

“- Monica: We're getting a baby.
- Chandler: We're growing up.
- Monica: We sure are.
- Chandler: So who's going to tell them?
- Monica: Not it.
- Chandler: Not it. Damn it!”
Courteney Cox - Monica Geller
Matthew Perry - Chandler Bing

“College is a time when young men and women expand the way that they look at their world when they open their mind to new ideas and experiences and when they begin that long journey form the innocence of Youth, to the responsibilities of Adulthood.”
Lewis Niles Black - Ben Lewis

“It's a trip, you know? When you're a kid, you… you see the life you want, and it never crosses your mind that it's not gonna turn out that way.”
Sanaa Lathan - Monica Wright

“- Sara Holland: I have never met a kid who didn't dream of being an astronaut when he grew up.
- Hawk Hawkins: Did you ever meet a kid who didn't grow up?”
Marcia Gay Harden - Sara Holland
Tommy Lee Jones - Hawk Hawkins

“- Jack Taylor: Maggie, when you grow up and are incredibly beautiful and intelligent and possess a certain sweetness that's... that's like a distant promise to the brave, to the worthy, could you please not beat to a pulp every miserable bastard that comes your way simply because you can? Could you not do that?
- Maggie Taylor: Okay Daddy.”
George Clooney - Jack Taylor
Mae Whitman - Maggie Taylor

“My dear, when you get to be my age, you'll find there are more important things in life than boys!”

Lucille Bremer - Rose Smith

“- Harry Whitney: Billy, we grew up together!
- Billy: I didn't like you then either!”
Keith Carradine - Harry Whitney
Keith Szarabajka - Billy Baker

“- Carol: The man I know is not the boy you remember.
- Shakes: None of us are.”
Minnie Driver - Carol
Jason Patric - Shakes

“- Moocher: Mike, the time comes when we just all have to go our own ways, you know.
- Mike: You're a real adult, aren't ya. B-town boy grows up.”
Jackie Earle Haley - Moocher
Dennis Quaid - Mike

“- Helen Harris: Sarah, you don't have to learn to tie your shoes right now. When you're ready to tie your shoes, you will.
- Pastor Dan Parker: That's right. Show-tying is tough. Why do you think Jesus wore sandals?”
Kate Hudson - Helen Harris
John Corbett - Pastor Dan Parker

“Carrie Andrews thinks she's cool because she spent her summer vacation growing boobs.”
Michelle Trachtenberg - Harriet M. Welsch

“People who will become old, betray their dreams, become ghosts.”
Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan

“- Plio: Looks like a baby to me.
- Yar: Babies grow up! You keep that thing, one day, we'll turn our backs, it'll be picking us out of its teeth! Things like that eat things like us as snacks!”

Alfre Woodard - Plio
Ossie Davis - Yar

“Grow up! And when you do, give us a call.”

Anastasia Spivey - Donna Jo

“- Jo McGuire: Honey, just yesterday you were in diapers, now you've graduated junior high, and you're growing up, going to Rome for two weeks all by yourself. Without me. Without me there. Without me with you. You there without me.
- Lizzie McGuire: That's just about all the combinations of those words you can make, mom.”
Hallie Todd - Jo McGuire
Hilary Duff - Lizzie McGuire

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy. "Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.
Sir Michael Caine - Robert Spritzel

“A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.”

Evelyn Venable - The Blue Fairy