Overgrown Child Quotes & Sayings

Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like a garden, overgrown with evil and with sin. — Robert Jeffress

Marriage is just a fancy word for adopting an overgrown male child who can not be handled by his parents any more. — Thabang Gideon Magaola

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent. — Jostein Gaarder

The literature of childhood abounds with evidence that the peaks of a child's experience are not visits to the cinema, or even family outings to the sea, but occasions when he escapes into places that are disused and overgrown and silent. To a child there is more joy in a rubbish tip than a flowery rockery, in a fallen tree than a piece of statuary, in a muddy track than a gravel path. — Iona Opie

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. — H.L. Mencken

You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child. — Emily Yoffe

My Dear,
These are the memories of my life as a child. This is the story of the world before I was here, the universe I was born into, that I came to love before I had to grow up, find rent and suffer hangovers. This is the story of how I became this overgrown adult with crooked teeth and scars. - Springfield Road — Salena Godden

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it. — H.L. Mencken

The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea. Everything was romantic in my imagination. The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden. — Beatrix Potter