Best Grown Ups Sayings
130 Grown Ups quotes by 105 unique authors
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
— A. N. Wilson
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...if a child waited to speak until all the grown-ups settled down and gave her some room to say her piece, the most important things…
— Katherine Hannigan
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Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line…
— William Goldman
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Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.
— C.S. Lewis
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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.
— Alfred Noyes
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That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid.
— Matt Groening
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I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The…
— Shel Silverstein
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Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart,…
— Denis Johnson
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Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age
— Barbara Park
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Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can’t explain them, and those who haven’t known them have…
— Michael Ende
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When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things, for…
— E. Nesbit
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Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we…
— Walt Disney
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For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic…
— Walter Isaacson
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But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly,…
— Sheldon B. Kopp
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You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or…
— Stephen King
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Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask…
— Anthony Horowitz
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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
— Roald Dahl
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I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that…
— Tobias Wolff
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It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.
— Neil Gaiman
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I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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grown-ups always say that things are complicated.
— Nicholas Sparks
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