"Kids are perfect people till grownups get their……" — John Irving
"Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them."
More Grownups Quotes
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably… — Drew Barrymore
- Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. — Eric Hoffer
- When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never… — Susan Boyle
- 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… — May Sarton
- Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at… — Harold S. Kushner
- Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups? — Pope John Paul II
- I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with… — Bill Nye
- I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed… — Leslie Feinberg
- Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble,… — Elizabeth Enright
- Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most… — Wess Stafford