Grownups Quotes - Page 2

• Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child’s life.

  Wess Stafford

  Dream, Children, Responsibility

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.35, WaterBrook

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• I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their rules, tried my best to please. But there was something about me that made them knit their eyebrows and frown. No one ever offered a name for what was wrong with me. That's what made me afraid it was really bad. I only came to recognize its melody through this constant refrain: 'Is that a boy or a girl?'

  Leslie Feinberg

  Girl, Boys, Eyebrows

  Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never became them. One of the things we discover as we live is that we never become anything different from what we are. We are no less ourselves at forty than we were at four, and because of this we know grownups as Grownups only once in life: during our own childhood. We never meet them in our lives again, and we will miss them always.

  Elizabeth Enright

  Childhood, Missing, Different

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• Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both.

  Nora Ephron

  Home, Night, Unhappy

  Nora Ephron (1991). “Nora Ephron Collected”

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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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• 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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• if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Book, Not Good Enough

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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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• I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.

  May Sarton

  Children, Believe, Long

  May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.60, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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• Kids are in ongoing need of support, and they get various versions of it from grownups which aren't legitimate - a grownup's version of what we think you should have. We tell you what creativity is, and we even tell you what you're thinking.

  Jules Feiffer

  Creativity, Kids, Thinking

  "Jules Feiffer, Sketchy Character". Interview with Clara Jeffrey, www.motherjones.com. August 30, 2010.

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• I'll do anything for kids but I don't sign anything for grownups anymore.

  Clinton Portis

  Kids

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• Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

  Keith Richards

  Growing Up, Thinking, Age

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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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• 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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• 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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• Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Please

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• when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says Private - grownups keep out: a children sprawled on the bed, reading.

  Anne Fadiman

  Children, Book, Reading

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• I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.

  Stan Lee

  Thinking, People, Bigger Than Life

  "Stan Lee and Andy Scheer Find Out Who Wants to Be Superhero?". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. August 13, 2007.

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• 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 the full page, and appreciate all of the different things.

  Jan Brett

  Children, Skills, Ideas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think being young in a grownup world, I think it stunted me a little bit. I had to grow up too fast on the outside, but I didn't get to grow up on the inside in the way that you might if you're allowed to fail more.

  Laura Benanti

  Growing Up, Thinking, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The world is an orphanage for grownups

  Elizabeth Swados

  World, Orphanage

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• Children want to do what grownups do.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Want

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• I don't really think differently of making a movie for grownups or making a movie for kids, if it's boring it's boring, so you want it to be entertaining and I think funny is funny whether it's for kids or grownups, the only real difference is language.

  Jack Black

  Real, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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