Quotes on Kids Growing Up

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

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.

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

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.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

No young kid growing up dreams of someday becoming a businessman. He wants to be a fireman, a sponsored athlete or a forest ranger The Lee Iacoccas, Donald Trumps, and Jack Welchs of the business world are heroes to no one except other businessmen with similar values.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.