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
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
Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see. — Jonathan Kozol 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
That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked. — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
“You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad.” — Ally Carter 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
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” —ANTOINE… — Connie Willis 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
“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
“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
There's no such thing as cheating when you're 18. That's just true. I'm very endeared by this notion of the way adolescents… — Greta Gerwig 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
“Maturity is not something that happens all at once. It is not a border between two countries where once you cross the… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Merlin: "Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit lately, I notice, of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.… — T H White Copy Share Image
“Coke had a theory to explain grown-ups, as he did for most things in life. In his view, babies are born with… — Dan Gutman Copy Share Image
Children are inspiring because they are open and a lot more intelligent than grown ups. They also have contagious playfulness and joy.… — Olof Arnalds 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
Run up in your house spare the kids and kill the grown ups. Your bitch call me when she hot: Krispy Kream… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows. — Opal Whiteley Copy Share Image
“If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We're all grown ups now, if you have a problem with someone you sort it out like adults. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Its Funny how when were Kids we wanna be Grown Ups and when were Grown ups we Wanna be Kids haha damn… — Mikey Mar Copy Share Image
Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it. — Allison Winn Scotch Copy Share Image
I'm not raising the children-I'm raising the grown-ups that they're going to be. — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I don't ever want to grow up. I guess I'm like Peter Pan. Grown-ups have problems. I want to stay happy. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves. — Bell Hooks 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
“There are lots of different ways grown-ups disappear. It's lonely being the one left behind.” — Julia Green 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
“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
“I like all weddings, but isn’t it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married?” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
