“And I'm never going to be one of those grown-ups that use an umbrella when it's snowing-ever.” — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
“Grown-ups everywhere are learning the instrument to relieve stress, focus their minds – and for the sheer joy it brings.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people. — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
“Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become then what you are.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it, — Sarah Beeny Copy Share Image
You know, it's just politics, it's a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil' children play with toys. — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Grown - ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaning things to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“They didn't really have a childhood. Just them and Mom and then her liver went and she died and it was just… — Gerry Boyle Copy Share Image
By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I… — Bo Jackson Copy Share Image
Man, I had a good time working on 'Grown Ups 2.' First of all, when I read the script, it is hands-down… — Stone Cold Steve Austin Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
People were like, 'Oh, there are going to be people running up to you taking pictures' and I thought it was going… — Mo'ne Davis Copy Share Image
If loads of teenagers see grown-ups screaming into the Internet then they're probably going to go, 'I'm not going to do that,… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
“The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are… — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
“I just wanted things to be simple. I didn't understand why things had to be so complicated for all the grown ups.… — A.L. Collins Copy Share Image
Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Parents get all focused on themselves, and they see their little babies start walkin' and talkin', and since they kinda look like… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
Secrecy is hardly new on Planet Girl: as many an eye-rolling boy will tell you, girls excel at eluding the prying questions… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
“For a minute I thought he was going to turn around and leave. Not even watch Times of Our Seasons. Then I… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like.… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“people used to tell me that i had beautiful hands told me so often, in fact, that one day i started to… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Hazel understood. Being grown up meant doing what grown-ups wanted you to do. it meant sacrificing your imagination for rules. It meant… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“You talk just like the grown-ups! That made me a little ashamed.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“Children should show great understanding towards grown-ups” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Sometimes, it's better that people break up - so they can grow up. It takes grown-ups to make relationships work — Unkown Copy Share Image
