Best Grown-Up Quotes

56 Grown-Up quotes by 54 unique authors

• The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up. — Elia Kazan
• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. — Karl Kraus
• 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
• 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
• To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits. — Lorna Luft
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women. — Francesca Annis
• Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor. — Yotam Ottolenghi
• I want to write about grown-up things. — Nicola Griffith
• 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
• Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them. — Natalie Massenet
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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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Who Wrote These Grown-Up Quotes

54 authors contributed a total of 56 Grown-Up Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Grown-Up Quotes by Kay Panabaker
• 2 Grown-Up Quotes by Francesca Annis
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Yotam Ottolenghi
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Wendy Wasserstein
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Walter Jon Williams
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Unknown Author
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Twiggy
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Trinny Woodall
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Susan Orlean
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Sloane Crosley
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Robert Plant
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Robert Altman
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Rick Derringer
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Rachel Cusk
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Philip Dunne
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Penn Jillette
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by P L Travers
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Nicola Griffith
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Nick Clegg
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Natalie Massenet
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Maurice Sendak
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Maeve Binchy
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Madeleine L'Engle
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Mackenzie Phillips
• 1 Grown-Up Quote by Lorraine Toussaint