Grown Ups Quotes
130 quotes by 105 authors
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Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its…
— Julie Burchill
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The coaches today should realize that they are, after all, working with children who sometimes have to stand up to physical and moral stresses which…
— Elena Mukhina
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Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.
— Duane Gish
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And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.
— Opal Whiteley
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For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it,
— Sarah Beeny
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I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude…
— Natalie Dormer
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
— Aristophanes
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When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law Baseball was made…
— Bob Lemon
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These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
— Diane Arbus
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy.…
— Al Franken
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Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team. We…
— Vicki Robin
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Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a…
— Leslie Poles Hartley
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Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.
— Artur Schnabel
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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
— Ben Horowitz
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Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no…
— Jonathan Kozol
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We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes…
— Jill McCorkle
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The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.
— Robert Maxwell
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People were like, 'Oh, there are going to be people running up to you taking pictures' and I thought it was going to be a…
— Mo'ne Davis
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But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the…
— Stephen King
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Children exist in the world as well as in the family. From the moment they are born, they depend on a host of other 'grown-ups…
— Hillary Clinton
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