“All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.”

“Unless our children have been into nature, it is unlikely they will care about it when they grow up.”

“We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.”

“Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.”

“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.”

“…once she becomes a teenager…well, sometimes there's nothing you can do. With or without you, in the end, children grow up to become the people they were meant to be.”

“I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.”

“Oh, I’m ambitious that we eradicate child poverty. There should be no place in a wealthy society like ours for children to grow up without their basic needs being met.”

“We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.”