Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is… — Lenora Mattingly Weber Copy Share Image
Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages,… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
We’ve educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren’t. Grownups always say… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“Grownups know things, said Piggy. They ain't afraid of the dark. They'd meet and have tea and discuss. Then things 'ud be… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The most striking difference between little ones and grownups is that little ones cannot worry, and they cannot worry because they have… — Maria von Trapp Copy Share Image
I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You know that Yogi and Huckleberry didn't just belong to the kids. Grownups know all about our animal friends. — William Hanna Copy Share Image
We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
I don't really think differently of making a movie for grownups or making a movie for kids, if it's boring it's boring,… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The day you realize you're a grownup is the day you realize that you have to do something. When we're kids, we… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
In school you teach us not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess,… — Severn Cullis-Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings...They are spying on real grownups all the time, learning what they fight about,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it,… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Next time I’ll just send the three of you e-mails. What was I thinking when I decided to have this meeting? (Acheron)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“It was them and not them, maybe the ones they’d never been. I could almost see those others standing in the garden… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
