Grown Folks Quotes

#1. We see through the eyes of children that they're not talking about race the way we grown folks are. They're not talking about color or how much melanin is in someone's skin.

John Boyega

#2. To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

George Orwell

#3. Oh, well. There's a dance in the States, called the Shag. I gather I shouldn't ask you to do it with me here, though." "Not unless you mean it,

Diana Gabaldon

#4. Do you love me?' he asked instead. 'Because if you don't, I'd wait until you did. I'd wait weeks and months and years.

Melina Marchetta

#5. I think I'll be a clown when I get grown," said Dill. "Yes, sir, a clown ... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

Harper Lee

#6. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Robertson Davies

#7. I think every time you get your heart broken, there's a little piece of it that chips away, and I don't think you ever get that piece back. But I think you're able to bandage it with time and with new people and other things that make you happy.

Demi Lovato

#8. My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

Maira Kalman

#9. People still watch 'Full House' all the time. It's on three times a day!

Jodie Sweetin

#10. There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.

Ali Larter

#11. The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well.

Rudolf Hiferding

#12. I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.

Matthew Specktor

#13. The morning was brisk and the coffee was hot and roasted with little gurgles in the room. Rosie hadn't moved, but she let out a tiny snore every now and again that made everything perfect.

Ruth McLeod-Kearns

#14. I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

Ed O'Neill

#15. Banks gamed the system, fucked society, caused the crash of 1929, drove the world into the abyss and paved the way for the rise of fascism - Stalin, Hitler - and they got despicably, disgustingly rich in the process. Banks. Banks did all that.

J.R. Moehringer

#16. 'Monuments Men' is a movie ... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you're expecting 'Transformers,' you're going to be disappointed.

Grant Heslov

#17. Sometimes, Ultraviolet, things feel true to us even if they're not.

Jennifer Niven

#18. Reckon I'd be lyin' iffen I didn't own up to feelin' a little sore here an' there," Willie said with a grin. "An' thet's all thet yer gonna git me to confess. Full-grown able-bodied man shouldn't be admittin' to even thet. Folks will be thinkin' thet I never worked a day in my life.

Janette Oke

#19. What do you want me to do?
Marry you?
People grow up! Move away! I'm going to college, not the moon!

Kim Harrison