200 Best Quotes About Kids And Children Growing Up Too Fast

1. "Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.” ― Virginia Woolf

2. "When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.” ― Seth Godin

3. "Children are the Shades of both mother and father, whether poor or rich every one had a wonderful creative life growing up with them.” ― Kishore Bansal

4. "You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” —Franklin P. Jones

5. "There are only 940 Saturdays between a child’s birth and her leaving for college.” ―Harley Rotbart

6. "Sometimes we don’t let them go, but that’s what parents are here for to advise and guide because we have wisdom from experience in life you’ll always be our babies to us you all bring us such joy when you smile! God bless our children!” —Marilyn Katz O’Rourke

7. "Cherish your children… for they are the footprints you will leave behind.” ―Taylor Evan Fulks

8. "I don’t want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.” ― Chuck Connors

9. "Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.” ― Ali ibn Abi Talib

10. "Sometimes, You will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” ―Dr. Seuss

11. "Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you’re in diapers; the next day you’re gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.” ― The Wonder Years

12. "We’ve had bad luck with children; they’ve all grown up.” —Christopher Morley

13. "There no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” ― Dave Willis

14. "Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” —Anne Frank

15. "If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” —Ig1acio Estrada

16. "To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.” ― Euripides

17. "To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.” ― Euripides

18. "Children need models rather than critics.” —Joseph Joubert

19. "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” ― Albert Einstein

20. "Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” —John F. Kennedy

21. "There is nothing more special than seeing your kids grow up to be the best person they can be.”

22. "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” ―Pablo Picasso

23. "While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.” —Angela Schwindt

24. "You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.” ―John J. Plomp

25. "We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.” —Phyllis Diller

26. "When you are growing up, there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.” ― Keith Richards

27. "I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.” —Jarod Kintz

28. "I don’t want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had – Plato’s white grandfatherly god – because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can’t trust him with your kids.” ― William P. Young

29. "I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.” ― Robert Rodriguez

30. "The greatest gift you can give your kids is your time, your love, and your attention.” —Anonymous

31. "As your kids grow they may forget what you said, but won’t forget how you made them feel.” ― Kevin Heath

32. "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” ― Pablo Picasso

33. "As a child growing up among artists, I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.” ― Robin G. Collingwood

34. "Sometimes, we’re so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.” ―James C. Dobson

35. "There are two gifts we should give our children, one is roots the other is wings.”

36. "Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.” ― Phyllis Diller

37. "To be able to watch your children’s children grow up is truly a blessing from above.” ― Byron Pulsifer

38. "Motherhood is an early retirement position. Your children do grow up.” ― Colleen Parro

39. "Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.” ― Kim Harrison

40. "As your kids grow, they may forget what you said, but won’t forget how you made them feel.” ― Kevin Heath

41. "It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” ― Nicholas Sparks

42. "Not every child will become a lawyer or a doctor. Teach your kids that it is okay to work with your hands and build cool stuff.” —Mike Rowe

43. "They’re all grown-ups now but I still have their sweet voices in my ear, the way they laughed and talked…it’s implanted in my memory…I love my kids so much.” —Emelina Fabian Frobel

44. "In 100 years from now it won’t matter what kind of clothes I wore, the type of car I drove, what house I lived in, or even how much money I had in the bank. But the world may be a little better because of the child I raised.” —Anonymous

45. "I think the actual moment of growing up happens when you stop wanting to grow up and start wishing you were a kid again.”

46. "I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.” ― Louisa May Alcott

47. "The more solid, sensible, common-sense, loving steps we take, the greater the chances of helping our children become the kind of children we want them to be and wish we had been when we were growing up.” —Zig Ziglar

48. "Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” —Lady Bird Johnson

49. "Dear Mom, You get mad at me for not acting my age, and then start crying because I’m ‘growing up too fast.’ Sincerely, pick one!” —Anonymous

50. "Hold on to the tiny moments and cherish the little snuggles… They grow up so fast!”

51. "I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.” ― Jarod Kintz

52. "You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.” ― P. J. O’Rourke

53. "It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower or vacuum cleaner.” —Ben Bergor

54. "Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.” ― Cindy Gerard

55. "Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it’s to raise kids who become great adults.” ―Andy Andrews

56. "The funny thing about kids is, they are the reason we lose it and the reason we hold it together.” —Anonymous

57. "Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples.” ―J.M. Barrie

58. "Motherhood is an early retirement position. Your children do grow up.” —Colleen Parro

59. "While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” ― Angela Schwindt

60. "When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.” ― Keith Richards

61. "Adults are just outdated children.” —Dr. Seuss

62. "One of these days we’re gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today.” ― Kenny Chesney

63. "I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.” ― Robert Rodriguez

64. "Your son will always be your little boy and your daughters will always be your little girls!” —Felicisima Nietes De Jesus

65. "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” ― Dr Seuss

66. "Our children are only ever lent to us. We never know just how long we will be able to keep them for. So kiss them, cuddle them, praise them and hold them tightly. But most of all… tell them you love them everyday.”

67. "I am convinced that most people do not grow up…We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.” ― Maya Angelou

68. "The final stage of wisdom is becoming a kid again.” —Maxime Lagacé

69. "Growing up is losing some illusions, to acquire others.” ― Virginia Woolf

70. "Age is a necessary but insufficient requirement for growing up. There are immature old people, and there are appropriately mature young people.” —Henry Cloud

71. "Cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow, for babies grow up we’ve learned to our sorrow. So quiet down, cobwebs-dust, go to sleep. I’m rocking my baby, and babies don’t keep!” ― Ruth Hamilton

72. "The great paradox of parenting is that it moves in both slow motion and fast speed.” ―Anonymous

73. "To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.” ―Euripides

74. "Once a mom, always a mom. No matter how grown the kids are, they will always be your precious babies in your eyes!”

75. "I still don’t know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.” ― Makoto Shinkai

76. "Once a mom, always a mom. No matter how grown the kids are, they will always be your precious babies in your eyes!” —Anonymous

77. "As your kids grow they may forget what you said, but won’t forget how you made them feel.” ―Kevin Heath

78. "Children are our greatest teachers. From them, we can learn some of life’s most valuable qualities; patience, curiosity, kindness, determination, resilience, fearlessness, trust. And most importantly they teach us what it means to love and be loved unconditionally.” —Anonymous

79. "That’s the trick of growing up. Nothing stays the same.” Hook sounded oddly sympathetic.

80. "Those little feet, won’t be little forever.” ―Ashlee Edens

81. "Don’t waste time trying to be the perfect parent or raising perfect kids, instead connect, love, cherish and live the time you have together.”

82. "Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.” ― B. B. King

83. "I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.” ― Tina Turner

84. "Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that’s broken.” ― Mike Huckabee

85. "Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they’ve learned.” ―Dorothy Nolte

86. "It happens before you know it, the handprints become higher and higher, and then they disappear.”

87. "We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

88. "You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.” ― Polish Proverb

89. "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ― Robert Brault

90. "I’ve screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.” ― Cassandra Clare

91. "If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!” —J.M. Barrie

92. "Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing.” ― Phyllis Diller

93. "When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.” ―Seth Godin

94. "When we are children, we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” ― Patrick Rothfuss

95. "Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they’ve learned.” ― Dorothy Nolte

96. "You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.” ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

97. "All kids need a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them.” —Magic Johnson

98. "Don’t try to make me grow up before my time.” ― Louisa May Alcott

99. "The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” —Peggy O’Mara

100. "Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience…and pimples.” ― J.M. Barrie

101. "When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.” —Adele Faber

102. "Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.” ―Virginia Woolf

103. "If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.” ― Bette Davis

104. "That’s the trick of growing up. Nothing stays the same…You see the faults in everything. Including yourself.” ― Austin Chant

105. "You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.” ― John J. Plomp

106. "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them”― Lady Bird Johnson

107. "It’s much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.” ― Stephen Chbosky

108. "Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” —Charles R. Swindoll

109. "No one tells you that the hardest part of motherhood is when your kids grow up.”

110. "Growing up is never straight forward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are certain memories that you’ll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that there’s nothing you can do except watch them.” ― Alden Nowlan

111. "Kids are great imitators, so give them something great to imitate.” —Anonymous

112. "A day with your kids, no matter how big or small they are, heals your soul.” —Anonymous

113. "I don’t want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.” ―Chuck Connors

114. "Hold on to the tiny moments and cherish the little snuggles. They grow up so fast!” ―Anonymous

115. "Cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow for babies grow up we’ve learned to our sorrow. So quiet down, cobwebs-dust, go to sleep. I’m rocking my baby, and babies don’t keep!” ― Elizabeth

116. "The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.” ― Alden Nowlan

117. "Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart.”

118. "You can’t stop your children from growing up, but you can be present so you don’t miss your children growing up.”

119. "When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.” —Tom Robbins

120. "Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” —Margaret Mead

121. "All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.” —Erma Bombeck

122. "If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.” ― P.D. James

123. "Children are like wet cement whatever falls on them makes an impression.” —Haim Ginott

124. "Kids: They dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.” ― William Stafford

125. "How amazing it is that children grow up in the blink of an eye!!!”

126. "I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!” ―David Vitter

127. "The great paradox of parenting is that it moves in both slow motion and fast speed.”

128. "If your days as a mother seem long and mundane, remember that ity is but a short breath before their wings are ready and they take flight.”

129. "I think the arts are very important for children growing up.” ― Stephen Schwartz

130. "Becoming a mom to me means that you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.” —Nia Vardalos

131. "Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you’re in diapers; the next day you’re gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.” —Kevin from The Wonder Years

132. "As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.” —Prince William

133. "When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” —Patrick Rothfuss

134. "There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” ―Dave Willis

135. "The greatest legacy we can leave our kids is happy memories.” —Anonymous

136. "There are only 940 saturdays between a child’s birth and her leaving for college.”

137. "Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise, everyone would do it.” ― Kim Harrison

138. "Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart.” —Anonymous

139. "Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples.” ― J.M. Barrie

140. "Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them – certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.” —Johnny Depp

141. "We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” ― Stacia Tauscher

142. "To be able to watch your children’s children grow up is truly a blessing from above.” ―Byron Pulsifer

143. "When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” ― Patrick Rothfuss

144. "Growing up is never straight forward.There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are certain memories that you’ll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that there’s nothing you can do except watch them.” ― Alden Nowlan

145. "The empty nest comes quickly. Do not squander your most precious privilege of participating in the lives of your children.” ―Alan Hedquist

146. "That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget.” —Walt Disney

147. "Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?” —Samuel Johnson

148. "The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don’t have to pay taxes — naturally, no one wants to live any other way.” —Judith Martin

149. "You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.” —P. J. O’Rourke

150. "A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.” —Chinese Proverb

151. "Children make your life important.” —Erma Bombeck

152. "Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” —Jess Lair

153. "Let them be little for they are only little for such a little while.” —Anonymous

154. "Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.” ― Cassandra Clare

155. "Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; its to raise kids who become great adults.” ― Andy Andrews

156. "Motherhood: the days are long but the years are short.” ― Gretchen Rubin

157. "Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.” ―Ali Bin Abi Talib

158. "As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.” ― Robin G. Collingwood

159. "Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.” —Russell Baker

160. "Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.” ― Horace

161. "Motherhood: the days are long, but the years are short.” ― Gretchen Rubin

162. "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

163. "Children are a great comfort in your old age- and they help you reach it faster too.” —Lionel Kauffman

164. "Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.” ―Zig Ziglar

165. "Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history.” ― Ray Merritt

166. "The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.” —Alden Nowlan

167. "Those little feet, won’t be little forever.” ― Ashlee Edens

168. "The empty nest comes quickly. Do not squander your most precious privilege of participating in the lives of your children.”

169. "You won’t remember the way I would hold your little feet in my hands, imagining how much bigger than my own feet they will one day grow, and how I will have to let you go.”

170. "Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.” ―Kim Harrison

171. "Your kids will become who you are; so be who you want them to be.” —Anonymous

172. "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” ― Dr. Seuss

173. "A grownup is a child with layers on.” —Woody Harrelson

174. "Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them – a mother’s approval, a father’s nod – are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.” —Mitch Albom

175. "I constantly go between wanting you to stay my little baby forever, and being excited about all of the amazing things you’ll do in this life.” ―Anonymous

176. "Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” ―C.S. Lewis

177. "Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it’s to raise kids who become great adults.” ― Andy Andrews

178. "Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.” ―Cindy Gerard

179. "Kids grow really fast, all adults face problem in growing up.”

180. "Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.” ― Ally Condie

181. "Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.” —Phyllis Diller

182. "When raising a child, you never seem to realize that the little person is growing a little more every day. And one day, you see him as a gentleman and be proud of who you have raised.”

183. "I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.” ― Jodi Picoult

184. "Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on earth, for what they believe is what they will become.” —Brooke Hampton

185. "No one tells you that the hardest part of motherhood is when your kids grow up.” ―Anonymous

186. "A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.” —Robert Brault

187. "Even though your child is beginning to look and act more and more like an adult, he still desperately needs your love, nurturing, and support.” —Gina Panettieri

188. "Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” ― Roman Payne

189. "The sacrifices we make today give our kids a better tomorrow.” —Anonymous

190. "You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.” ―Polish Proverb

191. "We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” —Stacia Tauscher

192. "I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.” ―Tina Turner

193. "Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I’ve always been an artistic child growing up and I knew I wanted to act for as long as I can remember.” ― Lorraine Toussaint

194. "I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.” ― Jodi Picoult

195. "Children who grow up with plenty can learn to give, just as children who grow up receiving love can learn to express it.” —Fred Rogers

196. "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ― `Robert Brault

197. "If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.” ―Bette Davis

198. "Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; Now I have six children and no theories.” —John Wilmot

199. "Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.” —Chili Davis

200. "Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” ― Anne Frank