Mark Twain Quotes about Growing Up

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

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

Mark Twain

Birthday, Growing Up, Memories

"Mark Twain's Own Autobiography," North American Review, 1 Mar. 1907

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

Mark Twain

Happy Birthday, Time, Growing Up

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.29, St. Martin's Press

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.

Mark Twain

Happy Birthday, Growing Up, 50th Birthday

Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.113, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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.

Mark Twain

Growing Up, Maturity, People