Grownups Quotes
80 quotes by 73 authors
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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
— Margaret Atwood
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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
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
— Eric Hoffer
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When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it…
— Susan Boyle
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
— May Sarton
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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
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Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving…
— Harold S. Kushner
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Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
— Pope John Paul II
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I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that's…
— Bill Nye
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I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their rules, tried my…
— Leslie Feinberg
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Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never…
— Elizabeth Enright
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Nurturing a child’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
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Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of…
— Wess Stafford
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We’ve educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren’t. Grownups always say they protect their…
— Maurice Sendak
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Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books,
— Maurice Sendak
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Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem.…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to…
— Price Pritchett
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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
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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
— Randall Jarrell
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One thing is certain: for many of those who came back from WWII, the music of Frank Sinatra was no consolation for their losses. Some…
— Pete Hamill
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