The trick is growing up without growing old.

- Casey Stengel

We are always growing up. I'm growing up as I type this. An eighty-seven-year-old woman is still technically growing up. So be as immature as you want. Right now, you are the youngest you you're ever going to be.

- Mamrie Hart, You Deserve a Drink: Boozy Misadventures and Tales of Debauchery

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

- Bernard Kelvin Clive

Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up

- Quetzal

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.

- Mattie Stepanek

When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.

- Christine Sinclair

Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world.

- Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

They said growing up was watching your breasts grow, your waist widen and hairs sprout on your erogenous ones. You became aware of the warmness that spread in circles in your stomach when that fine boy smiled at you. But that was not growing to me. Growing up was watching Papa drift away from us, and Mama grow drastically older from frying Akara balls just to cater for our home.

- Ukamaka Olisakwe, Eyes of a Goddess

I was a handful growing up.

- Olivia Wilde

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

- Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan