Controversial Quote by Edward Abbey

I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

— Margaret Thatcher

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.

— Anonymous

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent…

— Edward Abbey

Grown - ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaning things to them…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.

— Pierre Desproges

Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down time so…

— Tana French

The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for…

— Cressida Cowell

You know, it's just politics, it's a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil' children play with toys.

— Sharon Maas

“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”

— Nick Joaquín

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

— Randall Jarrell

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

And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.

— Opal Whiteley