Grown Child Quotes
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When kids can't come to my show, I feel bad, because grown-up 21 and up people really probably don't need my help as much as an 11-year-old child.
— Vince Staples
I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.
— Penelope Wilton
In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently.
— Otto Ohlendorf
Now that you've grown up You can finally learn to be a child We made it to the end of the world But we'll never make it out alive.
— Ben Harper
My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.
— Mary Pope Osborne
Be the kind of grown up you needed as a child.
— Jill Telford
Talking gargoyles and prophecies in the sky. I am an old done man, grown giddy as a child again.
— George R R Martin
He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it.
— Tom Kenny
I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.
— V.E Schwab
The child is grown, the dream is gone
— Pink Floyd
I'm not a child," Eliza argued with the closed double doors. "I'm a grown woman. With accomplishments and bosoms and everything.
— Tessa Dare
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
— P.L. Travers
Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Marilla loved the [more grown up] girl as much as she had loved the child, but she was conscious of a queer sorrowful sense of loss.
— L.M. Montgomery
It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.
— George R R Martin
Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.
— Henning Mankell
When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.
— Loleatta Holloway
When I was a child, I understood the things of my childhood. Now that I have grown into a man, I understand less of the world than I did as a lad.
— Joel T. McGrath
I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.
— Gillian Flynn
until the moon had waxed fat and thinned, and again grown heavy with the child of night,
— Rosemary Hawley Jarman
A grown child is a dangerous thing.
— Alice Walker
Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
— Stephen Hawking
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
— Karl Kraus
You have fewer than 1,000 Saturdays with each child in your care before they're grown up.
— Laura Vanderkam
Some people think ignoring their inner child makes them seem grown-up. When I see someone ignoring a crying child, I think they're an asshole.
— Jay Bell
Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.
— James Anthony Froude
The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence.
— Teresa R. Funke
As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men.
— Og Mandino
Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
— John Howard Griffin
She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.
— Neil Gaiman
{Lucy} knew other things too, more important non-school things. She knew that when grown-ups lowered their voices it meant you had to listen harder.
— Jodi Picoult
I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.
— Billie Piper
If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.
— Lewis Carroll
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.
— Sam Ewing
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing.
— Toni Morrison
It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.
— Claire Tomalin