Do you know of any good quotes about growing up?

Question

I'm going to be a senior this year and it's a tradition at my school to make senior shirts. I want to put a quote on the back but I can't find one. Something about growing up or friends or graduating? Thanks.

Answer 1

Life is like a bowl of cherries, with all the pits in them

Answer 2

Don't do anything that I didn't do,

It doesn't leave you much.

Answer 3

Here are some really great websites that offer some famous and no-so-famous quotes on growing up...

http://thinkexist.com/quotations/growing...

http://www.finestquotes.com/select_quote...

http://www.poemofquotes.com/funny-quotes...

Here are a few I really liked...

"Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn't have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves... for growing up.

The Wonder Years

"Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional." (unknown)

Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world. ~

....Sylvia Plath

~ The trick is growing up without growing old. ~

...Casey Stengel

~ Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that. ~

... Walt Disney

“In this day and age, some turn 18 and think they're a man or a woman and that's it, but that's just not true. You have to establish your manhood or your womanhood with actions.”

.....Orlando McGuire(American Actor and Producer

Take a look...you're sure to find something that strikes you!

Answer 4

Power to the people

Answer 5

Mark Twain once famously said:

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around.  But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in just seven years."

Answer 6

"We create our tomorrow by what we dream today" or

“The future is not something we enter, the Future is something we create”

Answer 7

We make a living by what we get...We make a life by what we give.

We don't have the luxury of a negative thought.

The best way to see the future is to create it.

It's not what people say, it's what people  hear.

www.florencepowers.com

Answer 8

you cant get to second base with your foot on first, so take the risk and forget about the fall, because now, it all dosent matter anymore because we know whats right from wrong because we are (name of your school here) class of 2009 (or whatever year your graduating) and nothing is gonna stop us now!