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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 give adults far too much credit.

  Polly Horvath

  Children, Jealous, Giving

  Polly Horvath (2003). “The Canning Season”, p.62, Macmillan

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• There are poets and there are grownups.

  Jean Cocteau

  Poetry, Poet

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• As a kid, I really did want to hang out with the grownups, so it was hanging out with the hippest grownups in the world. This was the nicest bunch of people I've worked with in show business, with the exception of the people around 'A Mighty Wind.' It really was a wonderful eight years.

  Harry Shearer

  Kids, Eight, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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 confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow.

  Wess Stafford

  Dream, Children, Thinking

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.50, WaterBrook

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• Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.

  Seth Godin

  Path, Determine

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• God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Heart, Want

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.74, HarperCollins UK

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• To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.

  Paul McCartney

  Ukulele, Play, Ems

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• Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.

  Andrew Ferguson

  Lying, Soul, Way

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• Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Book, Learning

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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. Kids who believe this about grownups aren't likely to argue about bedtime.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Baby, Children

  P. J. O'Rourke (1987). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, Pocket

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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 live one's life. And here we are now, today, still struggling. Still trying to sort things out. Still trying to work our way through life effectively. About the only thing that has changed is the scope of the problem. There's more at stake now. And we're in a position, as grownups, to do a lot more-good or bad-for ourselves, our organization, our world. But we still must wrestle with our imperfect ethics.

  Price Pritchett

  Life, Pain, Struggle

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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 children, but they’re really protecting themselves. Besides, you can’t protect children. They know everything.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Thinking, Spontaneity

  "The Paternal Pride of Maurice Sendak" by Bernard Holland, www.nytimes.com. November 8, 1987.

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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 had lost friends. Some had lost wives and lovers. All had lost portions of their youth. More important to the Sinatra career the girls started marrying the men who came home. Bobby socks vanished from many closets. The girls who wore them had no need anymore for imaginary lovers; they had husbands. Nothing is more embarrassing to grownups than the passions of adolescence, and for many, Frank Sinatra was the passion.

  Pete Hamill

  Girl, Husband, Passion

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• Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.

  Maurice Sendak

  Book, Kids, Marketing

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• I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.

  Lara St. John

  Years, Remember, Scales

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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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