Grownups Quote by Elizabeth Swados Download Open image “The world is an orphanage for grownups” — Elizabeth Swados ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grownups Orphanage World
There's a culture in orphanages that children are eager to escape from, and it's a culture of being reared as a group and not… — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“I agree--the world isn't a nursery. But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Children exist in the world as well as in the family. From the moment they are born, they depend on a host of other… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it. — Allison Winn Scotch Copy Share Image
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons… — Deborah A. Beasley Copy Share Image
I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music. — Elizabeth Swados Copy Share Image
“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox. The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides. The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun. The child will turn it around properly so that the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share
A lot of times it's the child that sees something and not the grownup. I love that because, when readers get older, they start looking for the most important ideas in the story. They don't look at things in the same way anymore. Children haven't really learned to do that yet. They take all their great, intellectual skills, look at… — Jan Brett Copy Share
What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make… — Monica Furlong Copy Share Image
As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don't want… — Sania Mirza Copy Share Image
Growing up I never had a perfume. I was like oh, one day when I'm grownup and have money I'm going to wear perfume. I had one perfume and I would save it for really, really, really special occasions. Which meant I never actually wore it. So now it's one of those things like, I can wear perfume everyday. I… — Margot Robbie Copy Share
Kaoru: Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no… — Bisco Hatori Copy Share Image
That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey,… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share
It's easier to be a grownup than to be a kid. When you're a kid, you lie constantly and people are always calling you on it. And when you're a grownup, you lie constantly and people rarely do. Children are constantly being caught. Adults rarely so. Being an adult, you also get a free pass, which means you have to… — Simon Rich Copy Share
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… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I think Laurie's Keller story 'We are growing', resonates because when you have that amount of independence, you're starting to ask yourself questions that the grownups in your life have been answering for you. Before that, you are a good kid, or you are a funny kid, because you're told that's who you are. But when it's just you and… — Mo Willems Copy Share
