Analogies are lies grown-ups tell.

Once I thought fairy tales were lies or worse promises spoken yet meant to be broken intent is all. Why do grown ups feel…

— Justice Fitzgerald

There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and…

— Pamela Druckerman

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 feel better?'…

— Steven Moffat

Grown - ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaning things to them…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.

— Pierre Desproges

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 time so…

— Tana French

The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for…

— Cressida Cowell

You know, it's just politics, it's a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil' children play with toys.

— Sharon Maas

“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”

— Nick Joaquín

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

— Randall Jarrell

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, for grown-ups.

— Caroline Rhea

And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.

— Opal Whiteley

“Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.”

— Hermann Broch

“We've had fifteen years of being grown-ups when we could have got together and we never have. Doesn't that tell you something?' 'Yeah, that…

— Karina Bliss

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe