Top 100 Quotes About Grown Ups
#1. Designing for children carries a social responsibility beyond bright colors and scaled-down furnishings that only perceptive and informed grown-ups can understand.
Sharon Exley
#2. Venice was a hallucinatory incubus, the most artificial environment in the world: Disneyland for grown-ups. It reeked of sex and its putrescent partner, death. Thomas Mann had caught its rouged, feverish aura perfectly.
Jonathan Galassi
#3. An infant's smile was the greatest promise that the world would go on, no matter how much the grown-ups mucked around with it.
Janice Maynard
#4. Grown-ups get lonely at night, and they like to have someone to sleep with. Like Mom and Daddy do. I have my bear," she continued, referring to her favorite stuffed animal. "So I don't get lonely.
Nora Roberts
#5. I practically lived in the woods when I was a kid, avoiding grown-ups and my dysfunctional family, pretending I was half-wolf, a feral child who napped in nests made out of ferns, ate wild blueberries, and wove sticks and feathers into her hair.
Jennifer McMahon
#6. Jay became an adult. He got a job, married a wife, and they had a child. Now he had so many things to take care! Like all other grown ups, he talked more of being busy than of being happy. He completely forgot the little bird singing beautiful songs in his heart.
Ilchi Lee
#7. Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.
Walt Disney Company
#8. I'm not raising the children-I'm raising the grown-ups that they're going to be.
Louis C.K.
#9. I knew I was some kind of misfit, but it was becoming apparent that some of the grown-ups who smiled sweetly and told me how terrible and fucked-up I was were complete fuckups themselves.
John Elder Robison
#10. I say to the grown-ups, 'If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we've observed in the universe that's fine. But don't make your kids do it.'
Bill Nye
#11. DEAN: Come back when you're ready to play with the grown-ups.
Mina Carter
#12. Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose.
Eric Liu
#13. Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.
Hermann Broch
#14. First," said Ms. Johnson, "I want you to know that you are all winners,"
Why do grown-ups always say that? Duh,we know we're not all winners.
Bruce Hale
#15. Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what's going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression.
Michael Leunig
#16. Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.
Adora Svitak
#17. You may think that grown-ups create children. The reality is that children create grown-ups. They become their own person, and so do you. Children give so much more than they take.
John Medina
#18. Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one can tell them not to, and one can tell them not to worry so much.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#19. Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
Anthony Hecht
#20. Metaphors are something grown-ups use when they can't set troublesome boys on fire.
Elizabeth Camden
#21. Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age
Barbara Park
#22. The grown-ups snapped the chillies (each made a sound terse as a satirical retort), and scattered the tiny, deadly seeds in their food.
Amit Chaudhuri
#24. We picked some pea pods, opened them and ate the peas inside. Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good when they were freshly-picked and raw, and put them in tin cans, and make them revolting.
Neil Gaiman
#25. As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.
Susan Shreve
#26. I don't think kids or grown-ups should be so eager to punish "geek" enthusiasm with shaming, even if the enthusiasm is for arcane things.
David Anderegg
#27. Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.
Stan Lee
#28. What about our human rights,' demanded Carl, who'd gathered a small deputation of kids within minutes. 'There is a WAR ON,' said Crewman Devlin, shortly. I wondered if this meant grown-ups actually listen to you when there wasn't a war on, because somehow I was sceptical.
Sophia McDougall
#29. There are lots of different ways grown-ups disappear. It's lonely being the one left behind.
Julia Green
#30. You say you're worried about kids? I'm not worried about kids, I'm worried about grown ups ... Children are not the problem here ... We spend the first year of their lives teaching them how to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#31. I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#32. I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.
Natalie Dormer
#33. There are so many words I can use to describe the looks on people's faces. And for a long time I didn't get it. I'd just get mad. Mad when they stared. Mad when they looked away. "What the heck are you looking at?" I'd say to people - even grown-ups.
R.J. Palacio
#34. Nobody treating us like kids. For once, we gt to be equals, not babies. Could use more of that in the twenty-first. Age doesn't make grown-ups.
Joss Whedon
#35. You know, back in the old days adults were respected because of how wise they were, and people went to them to help settle disputes. Nowadays it's a whole different world, and half the time I wonder if grown-ups should really be in charge.
Jeff Kinney
#36. Have to start taking things mildly seriously, now! Ugh! Just the word sends shivers down my spine. Serious. Seeeerious. Cereal-ous. Trix are for kids. College is not for kids. College is for grown-ups.
Sara Wolf
#37. Little kids I don't mind. Every kid wants a pony. It's grown-ups that get my robe in a knot. Stop with the begging, okay? Adore me for a change. Or give thanks. I like gratitude. Or ask for guidance. But oh, no. It's always the pony.
Ron Koertge
#38. Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids, I swear to you, I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups.
Shawn Levy
#39. My mum told me that grown-ups don't like teenagers, which is the last thing you want to hear when you are one yourself!
Ella Eyre
#41. For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it,
Sarah Beeny
#42. I was reminded again that there are so many things we need that can also hurt us: cars, knives, grown-ups.
Lena Dunham
#43. A fifteen-year-old dropped her cone, bent to retrieve it, then hesitated, abandoned the melting delicacy to the pavement and the soles of future passers-by; soon she would be one of the grown-ups and no longer lick ice cream in the street.
Gunter Grass
#44. I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.
Anne Lamott
#45. Relationships is not a game of amateurs is what people say..
But they begin to foster between amateurs and become a reason to make them matured grown-ups!
Sujit Lalwani
#47. Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart, that world, and against the face. No indoors or outdoors, only everything touching us, and the grown-ups lumbering past overhead like constellations.
Denis Johnson
#48. People were like, 'Oh, there are going to be people running up to you taking pictures' and I thought it was going to be a bunch of little kids. But it's grown-ups! And that's, like, creepy.
Mo'ne Davis
#49. Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become then what you are.
Jim Lynch
#50. There are a lot of grown ups who, should be sent up to their rooms, and told they must stay there, until they learn they can play fair.
Dawud Wharnsby Ali
#51. Watch the littlest kids carefully; the biggest messages for the grown-ups are hidden there!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. Set loose, a child would run down the paths, scramble up the rocks, lie on the earth. Grown-ups more often let their minds do the running, scrambling, and lying, but the emotion is shared. It feels good to be here.
David Miller
#53. Children go from being a kind of cultural protectorate to the Junior Auxiliary of the tube-watching nation at large, and programs are designed for them on the same principle as they're designed for grown-ups: as a way to sell eyeballs to advertisers.
Jonathan Dee
#54. Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.
C.S. Lewis
#55. The local painters were my idols ... These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in love! Like mine!
Frederick Franck
#56. Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no personal reputation to secure.
Jonathan Kozol
#57. The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid.
Matt Groening
#58. Irritated by the fact that the rules that always applied to children never seemed to apply to grown-ups at all (despite the fact that they were the ones who enforced them).
John Boyne
#59. Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
Bob Lemon
#60. Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. And grown-ups are the biggest culprits of all.
Sarvenaz Tash
#61. It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
Enid Blyton
#62. Why are they like that?' I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek.
'I don't know,' Cico answered, 'except that people, grown-ups and kids, seem to want to hurt each other - and it's worse when they're in a group.
Rudolfo Anaya
#64. These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
Diane Arbus
#65. Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.
Tom Waits
#66. If you're referring to yourself as a 'grown-up', then you're still totally a kid. 'Grown ups' call themselves adults
Chelsea Fine
#67. You dole out these stolen little pieces for yourself. You've been doing it for so long that you not only have no idea what you need, you have no idea what anyone else might need, either. No one is all or nothing. Grown-ups don't need someone to be all or nothing.
Mary Ann Rivers
#68. The grown-ups, or maybe I should say the parents, ate in the dining room.
Ann Darby
#69. Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
Aristophanes
#70. It often happens with grown-ups that their tears are misunderstood. (Who can know which time in their lives they are reliving?)
John Irving
#71. When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#72. All the grown-ups she knows keep taking bits of her guts away with them and never giving them back.
Brooke Davis
#73. It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.
Neil Gaiman
#74. ...There is no such thing as grown ups...
Neil Gaiman
#75. My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
Enid Blyton
#76. The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful for grown-ups.
Ada Calhoun
#77. But even grown-ups have elders who know better.
Ransom Riggs
#78. Everyone things children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I've lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murder. Kids get away with it.
Jennifer L. Holm
#79. Children are inspiring because they are open and a lot more intelligent than grown ups. They also have contagious playfulness and joy. For me as an artist the challenge of having a child is having to think ahead a lot more. Which in a way is good, since I sometimes lack self-discipline.
Olof Arnalds
#80. Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them have no understanding of them at all.
Michael Ende
#81. Founders often had to step aside to let corporate "grown-ups" raise their babies - that was just how Silicon Valley worked.
Gina Keating
#82. You can't keep children in the nursery forever. If you do, they never become grown-ups, but they're not really children either. They are just pets.
Philip Reeve
#83. If our kids only expect blessings and exemptions, they will be terrible grown-ups.
Jen Hatmaker
#84. We have a lot of American TV in Australia. I grew up watching 'Seinfeld,' 'The Simpsons' and those prime time TV shows over the years that feature grown-ups and high school kids. We had a saturation of American voices.
Sarah Snook
#85. The sad truth is,
we are all grown ups and most of us are
matured.
However, not all of us are old enough to
accept that loving someone doesn't
guarantee you that they will love you in
return.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#87. You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad.
Ally Carter
#88. You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Madeleine L'Engle
#89. Grown-ups are an untrustworthy, treacherous lot, they don't take their games in the serious wholehearted way children do, and yet they too have their own games, one more serious than the other, one game inside another, so that it's impossible to discover what the real one is.
Italo Calvino
#90. The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies.
Tia Carrere
#91. It's so strange: grown-ups trying to become young, young ones trying to grow up and all the time, whatever people want, time moves forward, forward.
David Almond
#93. Adolescents have a very rocky insecure time. Grown-ups treat them like children and yet expect them to act like adults. They give them orders like little animals, then expect them to react like mature, and always rational, self-assured persons of legal stature.
Beatrice Sparks
#94. I was grown up long before the grown ups were the grown ups.
Aporva Kala
#95. Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?
Cornelia Funke
#96. Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!
Dav Pilkey
#97. When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.
Charles Finch
#98. But I, alas, do not know how to see sheep through the walls of boxes. Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups. I have had to grow old.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#99. Children - even when they have endured the unthinkable - have a gift for divining the moment when the grown-ups really need to lighten up.
Barbara Kingsolver
#100. Most married people can expect a specific other person to be there for them in a way that a single person typically cannot. Does that make married people more mature than single people?
Married people are on training wheels. Singles are riding the bikes for grown-ups.
Bella DePaulo
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