Grownup Quotes

35 quotes by 34 authors

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense,… — Drew Barrymore
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. — May Sarton
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will… — May Sarton
Nurturing a childâ€™s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup… — Wess Stafford
Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books, — Maurice Sendak
When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children… — Polly Horvath
All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child. — John Grant
Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a… — Andrew Ferguson
Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup. — Seth Godin
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders… — Robbie Fowler
I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be a teenager, but… — Nigel Cole
I find that the majority of the year, I don't spend acting. I spend it either writing or editing or producing, or putting things together.… — Charlie Day
Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup. — Ron Fournier
A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without… — Julien Green
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders… — Dag Hammarskjold
A grownup is a child with layers on. — Woody Harrelson
There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to… — J. Michael Straczynski
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. — Wendy Wasserstein
Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died. — Joss Whedon
I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's… — Barack Obama

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