„All children, except one, grow up.“

— J. M. Barrie

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„They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.“
— Virginia Woolf
„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.“
— Margaret Mead
„The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.“
— Margaret Mead
„The children of the privileged grow up expecting that, through no particular effort of their own, they will retain a privileged position.“
— Carl Sagan
„I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.“
— Jodi Picoult
„I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.“
— Frank Zappa
„This target is not sufficient to protect the future for children growing up today. If the EU is to make its fair contribution to stay within the carbon budget for the 2C limit then it needs a minimum of 80 percent reduction by 2030, and that includes aviation and shipping… There is simply not enough time to wait for us to grow up and become the ones in charge.“
— Greta Thunberg