Top 86 Quotes About Grownups
#1. 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
#2. Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.
Scarlett Thomas
#3. Grownups have it in them to be creative, and sometimes, with the help of ambition, hard work, and a bit of luck they actually are, but being grownups, they have no sooner created some epoch-making invention than they become a slave to it.
Gunter Grass
#4. When children say it's time to leave, they mean, "It's time to leave." When grownups say so, they really mean, "It's time to begin thinking about leaving sometime in the near future.
Andrew Peterson
#5. I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.
Lara St. John
#7. It's a game box. They were invented so teenagers wouldn't have to talk to grownups.
Eoin Colfer
#9. I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.
Katherine Waterston
#10. This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
William Golding
#11. Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.
Lenora Mattingly Weber
#12. I make the surprised O with my mouth, although I am not really that surprised. It was the kind of story that grownups tell children to complicate a thing when they could just tell you the thing itself, much faster.
Claire King
#13. Children remember staying up late. Grownups think about getting up early
Robert Goolrick
#14. Cute-and-furry was always an easier sell than carapaced-and-multilegged, for some obscure reason. Grownups, so unreasonable ...
Lois McMaster Bujold
#15. Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.
Harold S. Kushner
#16. Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.
Robert Cormier
#17. I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
Fatty Arbuckle
#18. I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.
Stan Lee
#20. One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
Randall Jarrell
#21. The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.
Neil Gaiman
#22. Children are far more interesting to work with than grownups. They're incredibly honest. They'll tell you exactly what they think.
Tim Sample
#23. She pushed the revelation about Dr. Kruger into a side pocket of her mind, to be examined more thoroughly another time. Who would ever have suspected that he was shy? That any grownups were, for that matter, and especially a person as important as a doctor?
Beverly Butler
#24. I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before.
Marco Rubio
#25. I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine Stories - recorded many albums, and 10 years ago I started recording kid's music, too.
Lisa Loeb
#26. For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
Kate DiCamillo
#27. I had left school at 16, gone to stage school - and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyone but myself. Then in 1979, I made a film with Mike Leigh called 'Grownups,' which went out on the BBC, and overnight this new career opened up.
Lesley Manville
#28. Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#29. Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow.
Wess Stafford
#30. Those of us who've bypassed the exits for marriage and children tend to motor through our thirties like unlicensed drivers, unauthorized grownups.
Kate Bolick
#31. I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.
Jessye Norman
#32. 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
#34. If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free country. But for a Christian sect to claim ownership of the legal definition of a human relationship is way out of order.
Simon Jenkins
#35. I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
May Sarton
#36. Grownups acting like the worst kind of kids, kids acting like they knew what was going on.
Thomas Pynchon
#37. 'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.
Jonathan Kozol
#38. We grew up, he thought. We didn't think it would happen, not then, not to us. But it did, and if I go in there it will be real: we're all grownups now. He
Stephen King
#39. Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.
Joss Whedon
#40. Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
John Irving
#41. All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#42. It's (Politics) rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But it's the only sport for grownups.
Robert A. Heinlein
#43. People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.
Muriel Barbery
#44. Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.
Hank Ketcham
#45. When I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says Private - grownups keep out: a children sprawled on the bed, reading.
Anne Fadiman
#46. Everything was new, everything was exciting. We were playing house, it seemed, playing at being grownups. When you're in love, I suppose everything feels like a game.
S.E. Lynes
#47. And the little prince said to the man, 'Grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#48. Linus entered the elevator while the grownups talked and looked at the buttons. Buttons covered all the walls, and even the door. He pressed one, and with the luck that comes to children in fancy hotels, it was the fire alarm.
Ella Minster
#49. And children are still the way you were ... as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children, and the grownups are nothing, and their dignity has no value.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#50. The life I chose when I promised my six-year-old self never to forget being a child, never to grow frightened and dishonest like the grownups I saw, nodding politely to each other without affection, and decided to put my true self in a time capsule for later use.
Aurora Levins Morales
#51. Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
Pope John Paul II
#52. I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.
William Joyce
#53. What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.
Monica Furlong
#54. I'll do anything for kids but I don't sign anything for grownups anymore.
Clinton Portis
#55. Coffee is a drink for grownups. No kid ever likes coffee. It's psychoactive. Coffee is the drug of memory.
Ian McDonald
#56. Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill.
Lynn Coady
#57. The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access TV station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself.
Louis C.K.
#58. But I'll tell you secret. Something even a lot of grownups haven't figured out yet,' Miss Taylor leaned forward and whispered 'When we face our fears, we take their power away.
Bobby Nelson
#59. Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.
Toni Morrison
#60. When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.
Rene Redzepi
#61. Sophie saw that the philosopher was right. Grownups took the world for granted. They had let themselves be lulled into the enchanted sleep of their humdrum existence once and for all. 'You've just grown so used to the world that nothing surprises you any more.
Jostein Gaarder
#62. Grownups can be such fakes, I thought. They are always acting like they are trying to help you, and like they want to take care of you, but really they just want something from you.
Ava Dellaira
#63. As a kid, I really did want to hang out with the grownups, so it was hanging out with the hippest grownups in the world. This was the nicest bunch of people I've worked with in show business, with the exception of the people around A Mighty Wind. It really was a wonderful eight years.
Harry Shearer
#65. She started to speak, but then stopped. Anything she could think of to say seemed a mistake. In fact, speech in general seemed a mistake. It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. from Back When We Were Grownups.
Anne Tyler
#66. You talked to us about what kind of fifth-graders we wanted to be this year. How it was all in our choices, every minute of our days. How even grownups like you had to think about it sometimes, to be the person they wanted to be.
W.H. Beck
#67. Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem. Kids who believe this about grownups aren't likely to argue about bedtime.
P. J. O'Rourke
#68. Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
Stephen King
#69. As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don't want to be stars. Everyone wants to be a star! That's the truth. Even grownups; they pretend they don't want to be one and don't care. But everyone wants to.
Sania Mirza
#70. Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.
Roger Rosenblatt
#71. Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Eric Hoffer
#72. We've educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren't. Grownups always say they protect their children, but they're really protecting themselves. Besides, you can't protect children. They know everything.
Maurice Sendak
#74. I don't really think differently of making a movie for grownups or making a movie for kids, if it's boring it's boring, so you want it to be entertaining and I think funny is funny whether it's for kids or grownups, the only real difference is language.
Jack Black
#75. I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.
Lee Remick
#76. Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.
John Irving
#77. We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
Margaret Atwood
#78. Kaoru: Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no fun at all.
Bisco Hatori
#79. Call me crazy, but I still believe in you grownups!
Kid President
#80. In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.
Frances Beinecke
#81. Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
Stephen King
#82. That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.
Kurt Vonnegut
#83. He sounds to himself, saying this, like an impersonator; life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
John Updike
#84. She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did.
Neil Gaiman
#85. Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.
Seth Godin
#86. You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad.
Ally Carter
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