Top 66 Quotes About Grownup
#1. Children retain a great deal, and when they grow up they start going over things and rejudging them from a grownup's point of view. This must have been this way, and that was that way, they say. That's why you have to be careful with children - some day they grow up.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#2. I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don't feel you're going to change a grownup's mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It's also not a textbook.
Bill Nye
#3. If a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.
Madeleine L'Engle
#4. sides. The kid in you just leaked out, like the air out of a tire. And one day you looked in the mirror and there was a grownup looking back at you. You
Stephen King
#5. All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.
John Grant
#6. Would you rather be stung by a thousand wasps or sleep in the pigpen? Answer one or the other! You have to answer one or the other. Grownup versions may be more sophisticated, as, Are you a Democrat or a Republican? The
Thomas A. Harris
#7. I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.
Madeleine L'Engle
#8. Working is hard. Living is hard. Being a grownup sucks. I want money.
Belle Aurora
#9. The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.
Philip Pullman
#10. I find that the majority of the year, I don't spend acting. I spend it either writing or editing or producing, or putting things together. So it's as shocking as it is tragic. I really enjoy it. It's a valuable skill set. I certainly feel like more of a grownup.
Charlie Day
#12. Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo ... In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of which great grownup babies are expected to hide their eyes.
Clive Bell
#13. When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.
Polly Horvath
#14. There is magic everywhere around you, but most people are too busy being grownup to notice it.
Sassafras Lowrey
#15. The kid in you just leaked out, like the air out of a tire. And one day you looked in the mirror and there was a grownup looking back at you.
Stephen King
#16. Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.
Wendy Wasserstein
#17. 'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
A. N. Wilson
#18. If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.
Madeleine L'Engle
#19. Negotiating small differences is part of being a grownup; no one can tell you in advance where to put your foot down.
Susan Neiman
#20. No matter how fine your suit and your shoes, you will remind everyone that you are not yet a grownup man by wearing them with your old college knapsack, in its nasty, nylon glory.
Russell Smith
#21. Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him.
Andrew Clements
#22. I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm happy to hear it.
Ken Watanabe
#23. Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.
Joss Whedon
#24. Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.
Seth Godin
#25. I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.
Shirley Temple
#26. My favorite part on 'Energy Fields,' at the end of the track is a little girl laughing, and to me, it's a child watching the world, her friends, and so-called grownup people, and the way they try to understand the world.
Dave Davies
#27. I want you to move in with me, man."
"Nah. I appreciate it, but I need to get a place of my own. I'm a grownup.
Damon Suede
#28. Kids are in ongoing need of support, and they get various versions of it from grownups which aren't legitimate - a grownup's version of what we think you should have. We tell you what creativity is, and we even tell you what you're thinking.
Jules Feiffer
#29. He tossed her over his shoulder and stalked back to the bedroom.
"What do you think you're doing?"
"I've had enough babysitting duty. It's time for some grownup action.
Terry Spear
#30. Nurturing a child's sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child's life.
Wess Stafford
#31. When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, "When did you start feeling like a grownup?" His response: "Never.
Shannon Celebi
#32. A grownup is a child with layers on.
Woody Harrelson
T.L. Alexander
#33. You see, Miss Granger, people do not grow up because of time, people grow up when they are placed in grownup situations.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#34. Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.
Andrew Ferguson
#35. When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.
Kathryn Harrison
#36. Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!
May Sarton
#37. Spirituality is a grownup yet growing relation to the Holy Spirit.
Charles C. Ryrie
#38. When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.
Peter S. Beagle
#39. A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
Julien Green
#41. I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.
Tim Curry
#42. Geography! That's something they teach in the third grade! I never heard of a grownup studying geography.
John Updike
#43. God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.
C.S. Lewis
#45. It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity.
Ellen Greene
#46. As a kid, Vix had had some warped idea that grownup meant having a job and living on your own. It meant no one could tell you what to eat, or what to wear, or how to behave. It meant that it was okay to have sex with guys. What a joke!
Judy Blume
#47. She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
Beverly Cleary
#48. One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#49. I don't think I really realized what being an adult and being a real grownup was until I was at least twenty-eight.
Jodie Sweetin
#50. He touches his wife's smooth back as she sleeps her warm sleep and dreams her own dreams; he thinks that it is good to be a child, but it is also good to be grownup and able to consider the mystery of childhood . . . its beliefs and desires.
Stephen King
#51. Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
Dag Hammarskjold
#52. I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.
Rufus Sewell
#53. He sounds to himself, saying this, like an impersonator; life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
John Updike
#54. Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books,
Maurice Sendak
#55. I think being young in a grownup world, I think it stunted me a little bit. I had to grow up too fast on the outside, but I didn't get to grow up on the inside in the way that you might if you're allowed to fail more.
Laura Benanti
#56. Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job ... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.
Andrea Mitchell
#57. That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.
Kurt Vonnegut
#58. I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be a teenager, but actually I think it's tougher to be in your 20s because you're expected to be a grownup and expected to earn your own living and be successful and I think you feel like a kid still.
Nigel Cole
#59. Sits a grownup looking at the same old statue, and hey, Paul, Tall Paul, I'm here to say you're the same in every way, you ain't aged a motherfucking day.
Stephen King
#60. Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
Keith Richards
#61. Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.
Ron Fournier
#62. I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.
Karl Lagerfeld
#63. But Tom was not thinking about magic or struggle or the rest of his journey.
He was enjoying the game and the bright sun, and his heart was a child's heart.
But then, all grownup's hearts are children's hearts inside, if you can only find the catch that opens them.
Mike Carey
#64. Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both.
Nora Ephron
#65. I was raised in the city by a one-eyed mother...
Gillian Flynn
#66. A boy has other people do the talking for him; a man speaks his mind.
Shannon L. Alder
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