Grownups Quotes

• When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.

  Rene Redzepi

  People, Decision, Knows

  "René Redzepi: In His Own Words". ABC Interview, abcnews.go.com. June 17, 2010.

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• This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.

  William Golding

  Fun, Islands, Fetch

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.22, Hamilton Books

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• Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Ignorance, Vanity, Stupidity

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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

  Wisdom, Children, Facts

  Third book of Criticism

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• When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Growing Up, Fear, Healing

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A grownup is a child with layers on.

  Woody Harrelson

  Children, Growing Up, Layers

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• Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.

  Lenora Mattingly Weber

  Christmas, Xmas, Children

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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 fine.  But don't make your kids do it.  Because we need them.  We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.  We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.

  Bill Nye

  Kids, Needs, World

  "Bill Nye Isn't Dead, He's Gone Viral" by Nicholas Clairmont, bigthink.com.

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• I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.

  Michael Jackson

  Life, Children, Ambition

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 27, 2013

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• 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 fun at all.

  Bisco Hatori

  Fun, Long, Fake

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• If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Book, Not Good Enough

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• "Aren't you frightened?" Somehow I expected her to say no, to say something wise like a grownup would, or to explain that we can't presume to understand the Lord's plan. She looked away. "Yes," she finally said, "I'm frightened all the time." "Then why don't you act like it?" "I do. I just do it in private." "Because you don't trust me?" "No," she said, "because I know you're frightened, too."

  Nicholas Sparks

  Wise, Trust Me, Lord

  "A Walk To Remember". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 1999.

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• 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 the book, you have to figure out who you are.

  Mo Willems

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just playground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about.

  Stephen King

  Baseball, War, Kids

  Stephen King (1999). “Hearts In Atlantis”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Romance, Running Away

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• The day you realize you're a grownup is the day you realize that you have to do something. When we're kids, we don't have to do anything. Then all of a sudden you realize, if I want this to be better, I've got to do something.

  Barbara Boxer

  Kids, Want, Realizing

  Source: progressive.org

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• That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Mosaics, Jokes

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.192, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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. So it's as shocking as it is tragic. I really enjoy it. It's a valuable skill set. I certainly feel like more of a grownup.

  Charlie Day

  Writing, Skills, Editing

  "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day". Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

  John Irving

  Beautiful, Kids, Men

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• And that the best things that grownups do, we do for the children, and that they inspire great good in us. I also want them to remember that the world is intertwined and that we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good.

  Maya Soetoro-Ng

  Children, Impact, Inspire

  "The First Sister Reflects on Family from Motherhood to Brother Barack". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 3, 2011.

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• When you have an authority figure tell you something that distinguishes you, there's a little bit of a badge of courage or pride point that comes with it, and also some relief that the grownups actually have an answer for the problem. But, at the same time, there's suspicion and defensiveness, like, Why is the way I do things a problem? Maybe the way you do things is the problem. All of these things come with the very notion that you've been described.

  Lucy Corin

  Pride, Relief, Answers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Book, Writing

  Source: bookpage.com

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• It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Fun, Attitude, Book

  "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 07, 2016.

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• 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 can afford to buy another one, I'm really lucky that I can. Now when I have nice stuff I don't save it anymore, I try to use it.

  Margot Robbie

  Growing Up, Nice, Everyday

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.

  Robert Cormier

  Running, Brother, Heart

  Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.22, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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