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Grown Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the…
- Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being…
- Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they…
- Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.
- Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish…
- You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up…
- When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I…
- A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It…
- Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name,…
- When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
- A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
- Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.
- Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.
More Grown Quotes
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every… — John Avlon
- I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown… — Christian Bale
- Grown men do not need leaders. — Edward Abbey
- At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is… — Drew Barrymore
- With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther. — David Beckham
- I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18. — Ingrid Bergman
- Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models.… — Justin Bieber
- Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to… — Maeve Binchy
- Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown. — Erma Bombeck
- It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able… — Christina Aguilera
- The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel… — Phillips Brooks