If your gonna screw up, do it while you’re young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

It doesn’t matter. I’ve moved on from something that was never there to begin with. That’s one of the dire things about escaping from childhood. Eventually you grow up and realize the things you wanted...

I think about how maybe it’s not things that change but people that change, and maybe that’s the change everyone is really talking about.

I suppose I was artistic as a child. Our house was so full of art and artists that it never occurred to me not to be constantly making things. I just assumed that all kids...

My mother says it can’t stay like this, but I believe it will. The Pants are like an omen. They stand for the promise we made to one another, that no matter what happens, we...

Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into...

Don’t grow old to give up and don’t give up growing up

If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it...

I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people,or places,or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

… so this is for us.This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and loveand this is for doing it even if no one will ever knowbecause the beauty is in the...

In this league, it’s about growing up. That’s one of the areas I’ve got to grow up in. . . . Everyone knows I can score. Everyone knows I can do all these great things,...

That is great for the state of Texas. Growing up here I know that is always a big game. That will be exciting. They have a fine, fine football team. I know in Denver last...

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...

That’s one of the things we learn as we grow older — how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

It’s easy to grow old if you haven’t grown up

I don’t know as much about children as I would like to. I am godmother to a wonderful three-year-old boy named dominic, the son of my friend Sophie. They live in Scotland, near Oban, and...

Without making mistakes, there won’t be lessons learned. Without getting hurt, there won’t be knowledge gained. The only way we grow is by learning from the past. Always be willing to learn and grow daily....

Being a kid has always been about being watched.

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.

You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally realize that those dark days and sleepless nights were pre-requisites to your becoming.

I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.

I know more about my father than I used to know: I know he wanted to be a pilot in the war but could not, because the work he did was considered essential to the...

People and birds were alike. Things happened that hurt them or made their lives harder. All the time. But losing someone or something important didn’t mean the end of everything. It meant you had to...

One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.