Growth quotes

“For 18 years your mother is the most important person to you in your entire life. And then... and then... One day poof! You're gone. And then what are you supposed to do. Like, just adjust? Just like that?”
Goldie Hawn - Linda Middleton

“Sometimes to achievegreatness, you do, you have to cut off a little piece of yourself no matter how much it hurts, in order to grow, in order to move on.”
Tom Hardy - Ronald Kray

“- Tobin Frost: People change.
- Carlos Villar: People don't change. We grow old. And some of us adapt. And learn how to enjoy simple pleasures of life, like a family, a home. And for you, what's in that glass right now, for you, is as good as it's ever going to be.”
Denzel Washington - Tobin Frost
Rubén Blades - Carlos Villar

“One day, Carl, an influx of hormones that we can't control will overpower our better judgment and drive us to pursue the female species against our will.”

Debi Derryberry - James "Jimmy" Isaac Neutron

“- Harrison: You have a long way to go yet, lad.
- Spur: He's not a lad, brother, he's man.”
Kirk Douglas - Harrison
Kirk Douglas - Spur

“I can not for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.”
Pam Ferris - Trunchbull

“Michael and I grew old together. But at times, when we laughed, we grew young. If he was here now, if he could hear what I say, I'd congratulate him on being a great man, and thank him for being a friend.”
Ian Bannen - Jackie O'Shea

“- Matilda: I thought grown-ups weren't afraid of anything.
- Miss Honey: Quite the contrary. All grown-ups get scared, just like children.”
Mara Wilson - Matilda
Embeth Davidtz - Miss Honey

“Everyone is born, but not everyone is born the same. Some will grow to be butchers, or bakers, or candlestick makers. Some will only be really good at making Jell-O salad. One way or another, though, every human being is unique, for better or for worse.”
Danny DeVito - Narrator

“Boys have the darnedest way of growing up, Ballin. Almost when you're not looking.”
Rita Hayworth - Gilda

“- Balloon Lady: Of course, the grown-ups will all forget by tomorrow.
- Mary Poppins: They always do.”
Dame Angela Lansbury - Balloon Lady
Emily Blunt - Mary Poppins

“- Ossie: I don't want to grow up.
- Tito: Why?
- Ossie: I don't want to get old like O'Sheen.
- Tito: What?
- Ossie: I don't want to turn into dust.”
Ciarán Fitzgerald - Ossie
Rúaidhrí Conroy - Tito

“One day, when you're all grown up, and you have a real relationship, you'll realize your feelings for Nick were just a thing. Just a crush. In fact, I bet by the time school starts, you'll have completely forgotten all about him.”

Jennifer Rubin - Amy Maddik

“- Mike Teavee: Die! Die! Die!
- Mr. Teavee: Doesn't seem like they stay kids very long.”

Jordan Fry - Mike Teavee
Adam Godley - Mr. Teavee

“- Mother: Sybylla, I want to have a talk with you.
- Sybylla Melvyn: Talk away.
- Mother: You're a young woman now and - I have been thinking about this a great deal - we can't afford to keep you any longer.”
Julia Blake - Mother
Judy Davis - Sybylla Melvyn

“- Roy Hobbs: Is he with his father?
- Iris Gaines: No. His father lives in New York. But, I'm thinking he needs his father; he's at that age. He needs him.
- Roy Hobbs: Sure. A father makes all the difference.”

Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs
Glenn Close - Iris Gaines

“We didn't have MTV when I was growing up. So maybe it's the overstimulated times that we live in that causes young men to stick their... instruments in such... odd places. I knew a certain young men once who actually engaged in sexual congress with an apple pie, and he turned out just fine.”
Eugene Levy - Mr. Levenstein

“- Robbie Freeling: Why can't we get a TV, like everybody else.
- Steve Freeling: No! No, we can't get a TV.
- Robbie Freeling: Great! I'll just have to grow up retarded!
- Steve Freeling: Come on, Rob! Kids don't grow up retarder because of lack of television.”
Oliver Robins - Robbie Freeling
Craig T. Nelson - Steve Freeling

“The spirit of adventure opens one's eyes.”
Sir Christopher Lee - Mr. Midnight

“- Brown Cesario: What happened to the kid who just loved music?
- Shane Gray: He grew up!
- Brown Cesario: Big whoop! Stop acting like it's all about you.”
Daniel Fathers - Brown Cesario
Joe Jonas - Shane Gray

“If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.”
Heath Ledger

“- Gabe: Change equals death!
- Judy: What kind of bullshit? That's just a bullshit line! Maybe you fool your twenty-year-old students into thinking that's some kind of an insight or something, but it means nothing! Change is what life is made of! Change - if you don't change, you don't grow, you just shrivel up!”
Woody Allen - Gabe Roth
Mia Farrow - Judy Roth

“You ought not killed my little brother, he should've had a chance to grow up. He would had fun some time.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Karl Childers

“Just because you grow up on the outside doesn't mean you want to stop having fun enjoying life.”

Jason Beghe - Peter McCallister

“- Gilbert: God, Arnie, you're getting so big. Pretty soon I ain't gonna be able to carry you no more.
- Arnie Grape: No, you're getting littler, Gilbert. You're getting littler, you're shrinking! You're shrinking, Gilbert, you're shrinking! Shrinking, shrinking, shrinking!”

Johnny Depp - Gilbert Grape
Leonardo DiCaprio - Arnie Grape