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American writer 1932Related quotes
“You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Variant: We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
“Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.”
Philip Roth book The Dying Animal
Source: The Dying Animal
“Tell me, Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up?"
"Alive.”
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
Source: United We Spy
“To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Source: Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
Variant: I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longer
fall in love when they grow old--not knowing that they grow old when they stop
falling in love.
“It snuck up on me—growing up, I mean.”
Jenny Han book Always and Forever, Lara Jean
Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“I've got to grow up. For me it means everything…”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon (1966)