This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.
That was the way of things, after all. Children had to grow up. They did not always become what others wanted.
These movies are like my children, except you can't remake my children in 3D to push up the grosses.
Learning should be a pleasure, and children should grow up to imagine wisdom with a smiling face, not a fierce and terrifying one.
The delusion of invincibility can never grow up in the mind of anyone except one who has never met a strong antagonist.
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world.
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
All children are afraid of the night; when they grow up, they are still afraid, but more afraid of admitting it. ("Night Thoughts," May 8, 1939)
Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.