I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Our young ones have always been shoulder to shoulder with grown-ups, learning on the job in the field, facing challenges. They were… — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight,' although I got some in there. That was… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Once I thought fairy tales were lies or worse promises spoken yet meant to be broken intent is all. Why do grown… — Justice Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Everyone over 50 in America feels like a refugee. In the Old America there were a lot of bad parents. There always… — Peggy Noonan 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
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
“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
“Grown-ups are an untrustworthy, treacherous lot, they don't take their games in the serious wholehearted way children do, and yet they too… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
Miles: Well, things are kind of complicated right now. When you’re a grown-up, you’ll understand. Jonah: I don’t want to be a… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Maybe there weren’t any grown-ups, only people who had worked hard and also got lucky and were slightly out of their depth,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You can be part of my dream… you can be a big part or small part of it. But you cannot be… — Sameh Elsayed Copy Share Image
Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t… — John Irving Copy Share Image
When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
