I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

I didn't grow up feeling very handsome.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.