Grown-Ups Quotes

29 quotes by 27 authors

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
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
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
Grown-ups do a lot of complaining! — Dav Pilkey
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
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
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
I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups. — Richard O'Brien
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
The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies. — Tia Carrere
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
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
Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget. — Matt Groening
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
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
If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it. — Bill Nye
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
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics. — A. N. Wilson
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. — Bob Lemon
We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly. — Alison Gopnik

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