Top 100 Grown Up Quotes
#1. Children's games are stronger than you remember once you've grown up and left them behind. They're always fair, and never kind.
Seanan McGuire
#2. As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.
David Sedaris
#3. I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.
Alexander McQueen
#4. No one tells you that it hurts this much to be a grown-up. That people are so complicated they end up hurting each other to self preserve.
Tarryn Fisher
#5. My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got her high school equivalency degree at night, at Central High School in Providence, became a teacher's aide.
Tad Devine
#6. We forget when we're all grown up. 16 was a long time ago. It's hard to remember how freakin' difficult it is as 16! Life is not easy, and you're trying to figure stuff out.
Greg Rucka
#7. I've grown up, everyone's got to grow up. But there's something inside me, I'm always going to have that little sort of - how do you say? - child streak.
Prince
#8. I'm very comfortable with horses. I love horses and I have grown up around farm-hands. There's something very universal about anyone who's on horseback night and day. When you get off that horse, you are still walking as if there's still a horse between your legs.
Heath Ledger
#9. Sometimes being a grown-up sucks hairy balls!
Anonymous
#10. Everything's possible when you're seven years old." She sighed. "But then you hit an age where you decide it's cooler not to believe in anything at all. [ ... ] It's called being grown-up.
Allan Frewin Jones
#11. I've been on 'Hollyoaks' since I was 15, and I've grown up on the show. I'm so very fortunate to be given the opportunity to learn my craft in such a fantastic environment.
Emma Rigby
#12. I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.
Saoirse Ronan
#13. I had grown up working in a video store, and I'd grown up more with film than I had with theater, so I kind of felt a natural call.
Timothy Simons
#14. I'm glad to have grown up in the countryside and played, and had to use my imagination rather than a TV and had to learn to act the hard way, to have dealt with the rejection. It's a life as well as a job, at the end the day, we all have to work for a living, but we have to have a life as well.
Jason Clarke
#15. [Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.
Paul Auster
#16. My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
Colin Firth
#17. (The only time making a fist around the fork helps is when you want to stab someone because he's stealing your food. Now I know stabbing people is really rude, so I hold my fork in the grown-up way all the time, and I rely on discreet snarls to protect my dinner from predators.)
John Elder Robison
#18. They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,
and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.
Woodrow Wilson
#19. I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.
Lily Collins
#20. Figure skating was a pretty individual sport. I've grown up a lot since those days and enjoy being part of a team now. Being a doctor is about working with nurses, therapists, anesthesiologists, and I've learned more about team play being a doctor than when I was in sports.
Debi Thomas
#21. Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different.
Twiggy
#22. If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.
Lewis Carroll
#23. We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.
Frank Herbert
#24. It had worked. She understood. Things can kill you. All kinds of things, like toys, or older brothers. And as she'd grown up, that list had just gotten longer and longer.
Laini Taylor
#25. I've grown up on TV, and there were some phases that weren't pretty.
Kaley Cuoco
#26. I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.
Lorna Luft
#27. People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
Anne Tyler
#28. He'd grown up an untroubled believer, but the war had put an end to that. What God could permit such misery and slaughter? But, in time, he had found consolation in a God beyond understanding, and prayed for those he'd lost, for those he loved, and an end to evil in the world.
Alan Furst
#29. I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.
Leo Tolstoy
#30. I knew from catechism classes and other conversations that people who hadn't grown up with a loving father sometimes struggled to understand a loving God.
Reggie Anderson
#31. By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up
Eve Babitz
#32. Is this what being a grown-up is like ? Badness and goodness squished together in a big ball of craziness ?
Kirstin Cronn-Mills
#33. I believe that mountains do affect one's personality, if one can remain among them long enough; and if Sunil had grown up in the hills instead of in a refugee township, I have no doubt he would have been a completely different person.
Ruskin Bond
#34. I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties; it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.
Susan Orlean
#35. When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
Adam Hasner
#36. Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.
Plutarch
#37. The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. Until I figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up, I'm not going to be grown up.
Kay Panabaker
#39. I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.
Andy Garcia
#40. I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.
Emma Thompson
#41. I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.
Robert Rodriguez
#42. Pam, my new therapist, who's like some blissed-out, grown-up, yoga-hippie version of Rain, says that the physical body, the idea of the self, is kind of a scar: a brief puckering of time, a fleeting sewing together of energy and heart, which go beyond the physical form, on and on and on, forever.
Kate Ellison
#43. I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life.
LeAnn Rimes
#44. Realizing that many you once thought the world of are nothing but glorified assholes means you've grown up.
Crystal Woods
#45. If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.
Stephen King
#46. To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
Lorna Luft
#47. I guess you've grown up anyway, Janie. Even with all the bricks I put on your head to keep you little.
Caroline B. Cooney
#48. Sometimes I marveled at how grown-up we'd all become, and then Dick would recite a sixteen-stanza penis-based epic poem, and I'd take it back.
Molly Harper
#49. I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded.
Amber Benson
#50. I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
Anna Deavere Smith
#51. She was a grown-up, divorced woman now, on her own. She'd gotten herself this far, she could get herself around Italy too.
Carol Grace
#53. Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as "not black enough." ... Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.
Bell Hooks
#54. So you say there is no Father Christmas, You say there is no Santa Claus Reindeer cannot fly, it's all a grown-up lie...
M.C. Frank
#55. The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow.
Larry McMurtry
#56. I've grown up alongside Corr. My father rode him and my father lost him, and then I found him again. He's the only family I have.
Maggie Stiefvater
#57. When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
Charles Kuralt
#58. We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices much heavier, comparatively, than those of any grown-up person.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#59. The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
Taye Diggs
#60. When I was in college, my parents' house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I'd grown up with. That's probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important.
Rick Riordan
#61. Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up
Jodi Picoult
#62. Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
D. B. Sweeney
#63. Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back.
Stephen Burt
#64. When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#65. A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs.
Irv Kupcinet
#66. It is not necessary that faith and repentance should always precede baptism. They are only required from those whose age makes them capable of both. It will be sufficient, then, if, after infants have grown up, they exhibit the power of their baptism. - John Calvin
John Calvin
#67. I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.
K.A. Applegate
#68. Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born.
Ian McEwan
#69. She looked like a grown-up, a calm, controlled grown-up, and she was glad for that one mercy. No one would be able to judge from her exterior that she was falling apart on the inside or that she didn't feel mature at all.
Carol Oates
#70. A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus
#71. My entire generation has grown up in the shadow of one movie: 'Star Wars.'
Harry Knowles
#72. I love England. I live and work here. My children have grown up here. I see no conflict between this and praying that my countrymen in Scotland never have to live another day under Conservative rule from London.
John Niven
#73. I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.
Kay Panabaker
#74. Footnote:
"With all due respect" is grown-up talk for "I think you're stupid.
Dan Gutman
#75. As presumptive heir to one of the largest Duchies in the Kingdom of the Mists, she could have easily grown up more spoiled than any human princess. Instead she grew into the sort of little girl who's always up a tree or down a hole, a magnet for mud, queen of worms and frogs and crawling things.
Seanan McGuire
#76. The only person he told about his hunch was Monroe. He and Monroe had grown up together in Dorchester, playing in the streets when the summer made the asphalt breathe and their laughter bounced
Jodi Picoult
#77. So many people are killing their childhood. It's like, "Okay, today I've decided I'm gonna be a grown-up, and I'm not a kid anymore." But, that's bullshit. You're still a kid. It makes no sense to kill the kid.
Quentin Dupieux
#78. And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.
Archie Shepp
#79. The American civil space program is growing to maturity. It has passed through the joys and crises of precocious childhood and now is being called upon to do grown-up things, like earn a living and establish permanent roots in space.
John Noble Wilford
#80. If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.
Molly Ringwald
#81. Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don't belong to her, you know."
Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. "Well, children all have to belong to somebody," he muttered.
"Do you belong to someone?"
"That's different."
"Because you're a grown-up?
Cornelia Funke
#82. In that moment, in the
smoky haze, Celi looks grown up and wounded, and I
realize how young I really am in my long pink nightgown.
My sisters have a whole collection of broken hearts in a
book, and I haven't even gotten my period yet.
Sarah Ockler
#83. Saying everything is okay doesn't make you a grown-up.
K. Weikel
#84. We'd grown up as godless, savage creatures, believing in nothing so much as each other, and somehow it had always been enough.
R.K. Lilley
#85. I felt sort of sad that I couldn't remember the last time, before tonight, that I'd paid such close attention to the sky. It felt like that must be some kind of sign that I'd lost my innocence and grown up without even realizing it.
Tara Altebrando
#86. For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.
Terence Blacker
#87. I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.
Adam Sandler
#88. Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.
Justin Bieber
#89. Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
Charles Lamb
#90. You're not a whore. You're a chick who hasn't exactly grown up with every advantage, and you've learned to use what you've got. You don't do it on purpose. It's second nature. You act girly and helpless and make men think you're harmless.
Jennifer Echols
#91. One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church.
Peg Bracken
#92. A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay:
Grown-up
Was it for this I uttered prayers,
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
That now, domestic as a plate,
I should retire at half-past eight?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#93. I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
Stephen Hawking
#94. We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age- Are they withered in the sod?
Charlotte Bronte
#95. I think I've grown up in an era where character acting on film has become less desirable for the producers and directors and therefore the audience. They have got used to the people that those actors really are.
David Suchet
#96. I am as independent as I want to be, same as Catherine and Harry. We've all grown up differently to other generations and I very much feel if that I can do it myself, I want to do it myself.
Prince William
#97. Good. But why written in three styles of script?" To which Nancy had replied: "Because I'm not grown-up enough to be one person with one kind of signature.
Truman Capote
#98. But, really, are there any guys out there who aren't jerks? I don't even know any grown-up men who aren't jerks.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#99. I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.
John Benjamin Hickey
#100. Vitality is not the denial of mortality, but the grown-up way of facing it.
Susan Neiman
