Grownups Quotes · Page 2

“Using intuition is a hard thing for grownups to do, and”

— Stephen King

I am curious about grownups, not children.

— Jerzy Kosinski

Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books,

— Maurice Sendak

“Grownups don't know how to believe”

— Frances Griffiths

We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.

— William Golding

Children want to do what grownups do.

— Beverly Cleary

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

— Tommy Lasorda

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be…

— Randall Jarrell

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

— Eric Hoffer

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

— Stephen King

[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

— Judy Blume

Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.

— Hank Ketcham

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

— Lee Remick

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a…

— John Grant

Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him.

— Andrew Clements

Sometimes I think he’s the kind of friend that grownups call a ‘fair-weather friend.’ That means when everything’s going smoothly, he’s the…

— Barbara Park

When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to…

— Polly Horvath

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses,…

— Julien Green

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already…

— Monica Furlong

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world…

— Jessye Norman

I think being young in a grownup world, I think it stunted me a little bit. I had to grow up too…

— Laura Benanti

The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it…

— Neil Gaiman

Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's given to fistfights, gunplay,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could…

— J. Michael Straczynski

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words…

— Jessamyn West

This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the…

— Dave Ramsey

When people go to a new country, whether as refugees or immigrants, kids usually assimilate easily, but it's much harder for the…

— Firoozeh Dumas

“Grownups can deal with scraped knees, dropped ice-cream cones, and lost dollies, but if they suspected the real reasons we cry they…

— Katherine Dunn

What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just…

— Stephen King

As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they…

— Sania Mirza

Growing up I never had a perfume. I was like oh, one day when I'm grownup and have money I'm going to…

— Margot Robbie

You know that Yogi and Huckleberry didn't just belong to the kids. Grownups know all about our animal friends.

— William Hanna

“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.

— May Sarton

When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.

— Rene Redzepi

When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.

— Peter S. Beagle

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.

— May Sarton

I'll do anything for kids but I don't sign anything for grownups anymore.

— Clinton Portis

That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.

— Kurt Vonnegut

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

— Madeleine L'Engle