I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning. — Joseph Bologna Copy Share Image
How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups? — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.” — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
“Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.” — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
There are a lot of grown ups who should be sent up to their rooms and told they must stay there until… — Dawud Wharnsby Ali Copy Share Image
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“Some grown-ups could be so inherently stupid. Try banning homework sometime. You might see those straight A's so many parents long for.” — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
“First," said Ms. Johnson, "I want you to know that you are all winners," Why do grown-ups always say that? Duh,we know… — Bruce Hale Copy Share Image
The first movie [Grown Ups], people loved it and we felt that there were so many characters and so many good comic… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
“Grown-ups get lonely at night, and they like to have someone to sleep with. Like Mom and Daddy do. I have my… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about… — Mara Wilson 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
“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
I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Who told you you couldn't come back when you're grown? Was it the same person who told you grown-ups don't cry or… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Some might say the difference between being a kid and being a grown-up is that grown-ups don't think they can sail around… — Joe Blair Copy Share Image
Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone… — Erich Kastner Copy Share Image
“I would rather be old than a grown-up. All grown-ups are angry, it's just children and old people who laugh.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid. — Maurice Sendak 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
When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know. — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
There are no grown-ups…Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“I like all weddings, but isn’t it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married?” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Some things are private. I mean, we're grown-ups now. You don't share everything.” — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could,… — Caroline Rhea Copy Share Image
“Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again” — Antoine de Saint Exupéry Copy Share Image
Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill. — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
“There are lots of different ways grown-ups disappear. It's lonely being the one left behind.” — Julia Green Copy Share Image
“What is it with boys and fighting? I am amazed any of them get to be grown-ups the way they're always going… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you're referring to yourself as a 'grown-up', then you're still totally a kid. 'Grown ups' call themselves adults” — Chelsea Fine Copy Share Image
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image