All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a… — John Grant Copy Share Image
I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again. — Lee Remick Copy Share Image
[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around. — Hank Ketcham Copy Share Image
“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him. — Andrew Clements 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
What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already… — Monica Furlong Copy Share Image
I think being young in a grownup world, I think it stunted me a little bit. I had to grow up too… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly… — Andrew Ferguson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Grownups can be such fakes, I thought. They are always acting like they are trying to help you, and like they want… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
Kids are in ongoing need of support, and they get various versions of it from grownups which aren't legitimate - a grownup's… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine… — Simon Jenkins 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
I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don't feel you're… — Bill Nye 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 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
As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they… — Sania Mirza Copy Share Image
My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to date my first love for five years. We had a very romantic, very dramatic teenage love affair.… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“But we left camp after a while and we was driving in a real spooky place cause all the roads up near… — Timothy Victor Richardson Copy Share Image
We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals… — Price Pritchett 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
“The thought should have comforted Bobby but it didn’t. He found himself thinking of what William Golding had said, that the boys… — Stephen King 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