Best Grown Ups Quotes
130 Grown Ups quotes by 105 unique authors
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Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or…
— Adora Svitak
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I'm not raising the children-I'm raising the grown-ups that they're going to be.
— Louis C. K.
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There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending…
— Pamela Druckerman
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I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could, for grown-ups.
— Caroline Rhea
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Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!
— Dav Pilkey
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Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world…
— Dav Pilkey
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Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
— Anthony Hecht
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Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing,
— Alison Gopnik
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...we live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational…
— Mark Steyn
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I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.
— Richard O'Brien
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When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.
— Rene Redzepi
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We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe…
— Warren Buffett
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I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't…
— Susan Cain
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The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies.
— Tia Carrere
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My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
— Enid Blyton
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a…
— Immanuel Velikovsky
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When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.
— Matt Groening
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For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and…
— David Duchovny
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Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as…
— Madeleine M. Kunin
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.
— Bill Nye
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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