Top 100 Quotes About Grown
#1. Here we are, alone again. It's all so slow, so heavy, so sad. . . I'll be old soon. Then at last it will be over. So many people have come into my room. They've talked. They haven't said much. They've gone away. They've grown old, wretched, sluggish, each in some corner of the world.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#2. The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.
T. S. Eliot
#3. Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer - except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.
George Orwell
#4. I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable. It has left a great scar, and will be with me for the rest of my life.
Randall Robinson
#5. It's grown people who always believe the worst
Harper Lee
#6. I've grown accustomed to the stars above my head as I sleep, the ache in my muscles as we walk the land. The freedom that comes with defining your world instead of letting it define you.
Amy Engel
#8. As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
Veronica Roth
#9. These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
Diane Arbus
#10. Some people think ignoring their inner child makes them seem grown-up. When I see someone ignoring a crying child, I think they're an asshole.
Jay Bell
#11. I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.
Mark Twain
#12. Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.
Alice Neel
#13. Having grown up watching Barcelona, Elen gets a bit annoyed watching me if I don't do flicks and tricks like Ronaldinho. I have to explain you can't do that all the time in a game!
Frank Lampard
#14. So many grown-up people seem to be nothing very much.
Rumer Godden
#15. He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.
Solange Knowles
#16. I have not grown up on movies. I didn't watch much films in my childhood, but I was fond of animation films.
Sonakshi Sinha
#17. Sometimes i feel that i am unlucky due to couldn't enroll in the Harvard Business School but at least by this encouragement that i enrolled in MBA in Human resource management program whereas i grown as a leader and build the team in the field of HRM through motivation.
Avinash Advani
#18. A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
C.S. Lewis
#19. There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest.
Michael Pollan
#20. The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show.
Tom Chapin
#21. Little girls get hurt when they play grown-up games.
V.C. Andrews
#22. Loyalty to the leader reaches its highest peak when the follower has personally grown through the mentorship of the leader.
John C. Maxwell
#23. Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
P. J. O'Rourke
#24. Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing - that's what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry.
Helen Rowland
#25. Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.
Robert Altman
#26. One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.
Christopher Buehlman
#27. If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.
Pete Fountain
#28. My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.
Hermann Hesse
#29. You raised your kids to be independent, strong, and think for themselves. So once they're grown, why is it so hard to let them do it?
Jane A. Adams
#30. I think my mom and dad have an incredible work ethic, and we've grown up around it.
Kendall Jenner
#31. 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
#32. You never should feel like you've grown up because then you've stopped learning and you've stopped getting the best things out of life.
Lights
#33. It's Fendi. French, Fendi, both start with an F ... I fell in love with it. Smells like grown-man cologne.
French Montana
#34. And I know how many DJ pools have grown and I know how DJing has grown in the overall, but that was the technical side of it to me. DJs were rolling around, looking for stuff to buy and looking to see what was in the store when they get there.
Jam Master Jay
#35. ...and is there anything to compare to love? Is there anything at all, anything that has ever been built, grown or coalesced that can compare to love? Love as deep as the Mariana Trench and wild as a summer storm?
Daniel Polansky
#36. I was grown up long before the grown ups were the grown ups.
Aporva Kala
#37. I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her.
Lorraine Toussaint
#39. Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.
Terry Pratchett
#40. I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
Kathe Kollwitz
#41. After having grown up surrounded by so much manufactured beauty, Amara had come to want something different. Something that wasn't necessarily beautiful. Something imperfect, interesting, and perhaps even ugly.
Morgan Rhodes
#42. For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.
Stella McCartney
#43. Are ya tryin' to kill me, Maggie?" Declan bit the words out and his fingers dug deeper into her hips. "Are ya wantin' to see a grown man beg?
Sara Humphreys
#44. 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
#45. When you are young and powerless you dream of possessing mystical strength, and once you are grown and strong you condemn lesser folk to that same dream,
Bernard Cornwell
#46. I've grown this mustache which saves me from having to glue on one every day in the heat.
Keith Carradine
#47. There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?
Paul Weller
#48. Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.
Anne Ursu
#49. Be sure to buy organic versions of the 'dirty dozen:' the fruits and vegetables that, when grown conventionally, are loaded with pesticides and chemicals: Grapes, apples, lettuce, bell peppers, carrots, nectarines, peaches, strawberries, pears, kale, and celery.
Suzanne Somers
#50. I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
Barbara Park
#52. Apply expectations appropriately. Do not assume [all] adults are as grown up and mature as they should be, or appear to be.
T.F. Hodge
#53. But destiny grips us and, the next morning, in a soft winter rain, we buried the dead, paid silver coins, and then walked southward. We were a boy on the edge of being a grown man, a girl, and a dog, and we were going to nowhere.
Bernard Cornwell
#55. I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them.
Claire Wong
#56. Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.
Clive Anderson
#57. Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up they were so used to quarreling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.
C.S. Lewis
#58. He liked living simply. And he liked living alone. He had grown to dislike physical affection. It was intrusive, and it bullied his self esteem, because he wasn't good at it.
John Shirley
#59. I've just grown up a lot and started to encounter some of the big decisions of life in terms of what career I wanted to do and figuring out personal relationships and things.
Lee Norris
#60. Don't look so surprised. You didn't think I'd spent my whole life behind this desk, did you?
And I suddenly realized that, well, I guess I had. Weren't all teachers born behind their desks, fully grown, with a red pen in their hand and ready to grade?
Gary D. Schmidt
#61. People think of me as a nice person because, I think, I have grown into a nice person.
John Darnielle
#62. You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad.
Ally Carter
#63. Perhaps, when you leave your childhood behind too early and jump into adulthood, certain parts of you never fully grow up. They just become stunted child parts disguised in a grown-up body.
Angela Hoke
#64. As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater.
Charles Duhigg
#65. I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
Alan Cumming
#66. Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.
Ian Buruma
#67. Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
Samuel Richardson
#68. As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra.
Harper Lee
#69. 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
#70. Dante would not have forgotten: they say that when Dante was a boy, he was asked: Dante what is the best food? to test his memory. Eggs, replied Dante. Years later, when Dante was a grown man, he was asked only: how? and Dante replied: fried.
Fernando Sabino
#71. Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.
John Piper
#73. At 13 years old, I was doing grown-man things, so I know who I am, and I'm telling people who I am.
Shy Glizzy
#74. Five houses?" Lothaire had sneered, cutting Trehan off. "You all live under one roof now. Mine. Because I'm the king of the castle." Then his red eyes had grown vacant, and he'd begun muttering about "Lizvetta's lingerie."
Trehan had been ... underwhelmed by the Enemy of Old's attention span.
Kresley Cole
#75. absence was a sign that when it might be a question of gratifying him she had grown used to spare no pains, and I fancied her rummaging in some
Henry James
#76. I'm done being the grown-up. For a few minutes I want to be the kid. I want my mom. I just want my mom.
Katie McGarry
#77. Am I still interested in a guy's body? Now that I have grown up, I am much more of a 'vibe' kind of person! If a man has a good body, that is an added plus.
Carmen Electra
#78. When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.
Steve Coogan
#79. I have known people," he said, "who succeeded because they had a rip-roaring good time conducting their business. Later, I saw those people change as the fun became work. The business had grown dull.
Dale Carnegie
#80. Where once Kathryn had embraced a delicate child in the body of a young woman, now she received the tenderness of a mother's love from a spirit grown unimaginably old.
Kirsten Beyer
#83. In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.
Dr. John
#84. My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
Zendaya
#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
#86. Process is nothing; erase your tracks. The path is not the work. I hope your tracks have grown over; I hope birds ate the crumbs; I hope you will toss it all and not look back.
Annie Dillard
#88. When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.
Rumer Godden
#89. Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
E. M. Forster
#90. I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters,
Pete Hamill
#91. If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.
Charlie Hunnam
#92. Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as 'cool,' 'not cool,' 'jock,' 'bombshell,' 'quirky' ... it's like a caste system. You're either in, or you're out.
Zoe Kravitz
#93. I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a different way of viewing my life was a healthy reaction to what I was seeing every day.
Assata Shakur
#94. When, in the street, I see a mother walking with her grown-up daughter, I can hardly bear to witness the mother's pride, the softening of her face, her incredulous joy at being granted her daughter's company; and the iron discipline she imposes on herself, to muffle and conceal this joy.
Helen Garner
#95. The story doesn't begin with grown women being massacred in the workplace or in the press. It begins with innocent little girls who become convinced, for whatever reason, that the girl within them isn't good enough.
Marianne Williamson
#96. The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.
Jo Nesbo
#97. I embrace my body, and I embrace everything about myself. Coming full circle is a celebration of freedom and happiness because that's what [my new album] 'Lotus' is representing. I'm embracing everything that I've grown to be and learned to be.
Christina Aguilera
#98. 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
#99. To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.
Henning Mankell
#100. Chacko marvelled at how someone so small and undefined, so vague in her resemblances,could so completely command the attention, the love, the sanity, of a grown man.
Arundhati Roy
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