Mark Twain Growing Up Quotations

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.