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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him.

  Andrew Clements

  Lasts, Remember, Dave

  Andrew Clements, Mark Elliott (2007). “No Talking”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I think he’s the kind of friend that grownups call a ‘fair-weather friend.’ That means when everything’s going smoothly, he’s the best friend a guy could want. But as soon as something goes wrong…(he) sort of turns on you.

  Barbara Park

  Mean, Thinking, Weather

  Barbara Park (2011). “Almost Starring Skinnybones”, p.25, Yearling

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• Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.

  John Irving

  Kids, Hands, People

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• Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Sometimes

  Scarlett Thomas (2009). “PopCo”, p.97, Canongate Books

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• I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Dream, Moving

  "The Audacity of Hope". Book by Barack Obama, www.npr.org. October 17, 2006.

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• Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.

  Hank Ketcham

  Friendship, Use, Cry

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• All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Genius, Born

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• Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Please

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• Children want to do what grownups do.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Want

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• I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be a teenager, but actually I think it’s tougher to be in your 20s because you’re expected to be a grownup and expected to earn your own living and be successful and I think you feel like a kid still.

  Nigel Cole

  Teenager, Mean, Kids

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• If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free country. But for a Christian sect to claim ownership of the legal definition of a human relationship is way out of order.

  Simon Jenkins

  Christian, Country, Baby

  "The marriage of church and state is anything but gay" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

  Lee Remick

  Acting, Hollywood

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

  John Grant

  Children, Adults, Adolescence

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• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

  Robbie Fowler

  Christmas, Summer, Children

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• 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, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'

  Dave Ramsey

  Children, Air, Games

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• Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

  E. B. White

  Children, Spring, Heart

  E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.17, Harper Collins

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