Best Grown-Up Quotes
56 Grown-Up quotes by 54 unique authors
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The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
— Elia Kazan
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
— Karl Kraus
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When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor…
— Charles Kuralt
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
— Lorna Luft
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Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up…
— Loretta Lynn
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Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.
— Lauren Myracle
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I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because…
— Susan Orlean
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I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends,…
— Robert Plant
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When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other…
— Adam Sandler
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I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a…
— Jill Scott
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I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and…
— Maurice Sendak
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I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that…
— Emma Thompson
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Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want…
— Wendy Wasserstein
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In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
— Francesca Annis
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Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
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I want to write about grown-up things.
— Nicola Griffith
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It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its…
— Henry Rollins
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
— Natalie Massenet
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The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to…
— Trinny Woodall
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight,…
— Kate Bush
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
— P L Travers
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I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at…
— Lorraine Toussaint
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very…
— Dakota Johnson
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Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.
— Colman Domingo
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