Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me." "But you're a grown-up." "Grown-ups get sad, too.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows. — Opal Whiteley Copy Share Image
“We’re grown-ups, sugar. We all have pasts. I bet even you do. But those don’t much matter compared to the present, right?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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 are always more fascinated by what you might become then what you are.” — Jim Lynch 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
For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it, — Sarah Beeny Copy Share Image
I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“You dole out these stolen little pieces for yourself. You’ve been doing it for so long that you not only have no… — Mary Ann Rivers Copy Share Image
It's exciting when kids look up to you or kids come up to you and ask for your autograph. When grown ups… — Clinton Portis Copy Share Image
“...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… — Nick Joaquín 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
“The sad truth is, we are all grown ups and most of us are matured. However, not all of us are old… — Nomthandazo Tsembeni 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
Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“If you live long enough & have changed enough diapers like I have raising 6 whole grown adult children one-at-a-time; you ought… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
“We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids… — Jill McCorkle 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 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
“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
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