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Time passes really quickly and one thing all parents realize one day is that their kids have grown up too quickly. The growing years of your child are precious, and keep those memories alive and capture every moment with your beloved baby as this special time won’t last forever.
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Quotes About Kids Growing Up
- “Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart.”
- “Those little feet, won’t be little forever.” ― Ashlee Edens
- “Kids grow really fast, all adults face problem in growing up.”
- “How amazing it is that children grow up in the blink of an eye!!!”
- “When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.” ― Seth Godin
- “Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.” ― Cindy Gerard
- “I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.” ― Robert Rodriguez
- “To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.” ― Euripides
- “Motherhood: the days are long but the years are short.” ― Gretchen Rubin
- “Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.” ― Kim Harrison
- “There are two gifts we should give our children, one is roots the other is wings.”
- “There are only 940 saturdays between a child’s birth and her leaving for college.”
- “No one tells you that the hardest part of motherhood is when your kids grow up.”
- “You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.” ― Polish Proverb
- “The great paradox of parenting is that it moves in both slow motion and fast speed.”
- “Hold on to the tiny moments and cherish the little snuggles… They grow up so fast!”
- “I think the arts are very important for children growing up.” ― Stephen Schwartz
- “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.” ― Virginia Woolf
- “If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.” ― Bette Davis
- “Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples.” ― J.M. Barrie
- “I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.” ― Tina Turner
- “There is nothing more special than seeing your kids grow up to be the best person they can be.”
- “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” ― Dr. Seuss
- “It happens before you know it, the handprints become higher and higher, and then they disappear.”
- “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” ― Pablo Picasso
- “Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they’ve learned.” ― Dorothy Nolte
- “To be able to watch your children’s children grow up is truly a blessing from above.” ― Byron Pulsifer
- “You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.” ― John J. Plomp
- “Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it’s to raise kids who become great adults.” ― Andy Andrews
- “As your kids grow they may forget what you said, but won’t forget how you made them feel.” ― Kevin Heath
- “I don’t want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.” ― Chuck Connors
- “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ― Robert Brault
- “You can’t stop your children from growing up, but you can be present so you don’t miss your children growing up.”
- “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” ― Angela Schwindt
- “We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” ― Stacia Tauscher
- “Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.” ― Ali ibn Abi Talib
- “Once a mom, always a mom. No matter how grown the kids are, they will always be your precious babies in your eyes!”
- “Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that’s broken.” ― Mike Huckabee
- “The empty nest comes quickly. Do not squander your most precious privilege of participating in the lives of your children.”
- “Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.” ― Phyllis Diller
- “I think the actual moment of growing up happens when you stop wanting to grow up and start wishing you were a kid again.”
- “Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.” ― Cassandra Clare
- Sometimes the only way to get over the sadness of your kids growing up is to rest in the beauty of the people they are becoming.”
- “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
- “There no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” ― Dave Willis
- “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
- 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.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- It would be easier to never let it rain on our children but it would not be kind for they would grow up believing every drop could wash them away.”
- “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
- “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
- 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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “That’s the trick of growing up. Nothing stays the same.” Hook sounded oddly sympathetic. “You see the faults in everything. Including yourself.” ― Austin Chant
- “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
- “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.”
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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.”
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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.”
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
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