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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

Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons. — Bobby Brown

The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is. — Antoine Rivarol

So many broken children living in grown bodies mimicking adult lives. — Ijeoma Umebinyuo

In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently. — Otto Ohlendorf

Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away. — Craig Brown

I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men. — Tamala Jones

All grown-ups were once children ... but only few of them remember it. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning. — Mary Wesley

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children! — Julius Charles Hare

Where do we go from here now that all of the children have grown up?
And how do we spend our time knowin' nobody gives us a damn. — Alan Parsons Project

Be the kind of grown up you needed as a child. — Jill Telford

We say to our children, "Act like grown-ups," but Jesus said to the grown-ups, "Be like children. — Billy Graham

Aren't grown up people just little children at heart? — Adolphe Menjou

Thirty-year-old children who refused to act like grown-ups. — Francoise Sagan

My children have grown up around animals. They're not scared of them. — Candace Cameron

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren. — Brock Yates

This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes. — E. Nesbit

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game. — Bernard Malamud

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it. — Mignon McLaughlin

When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean. — William Faulkner

That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Children - even when they have endured the unthinkable - have a gift for divining the moment when the grown-ups really need to lighten up. — Barbara Kingsolver

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. — T.H. White

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind. — C.S. Lewis

Men are all alike. Grown-up children. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it. — Allison Winn Scotch

When I was a grown-up I was just like you, and I did all the things you do. But it was hard to be that tall, so I decided I'd be small. — Nichole Hansen

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it. — Tony Dungy

Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid. — Maurice Sendak

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. — Carl Jung

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence. — Sholom Aleichem

Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes. — Artur Schnabel

Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up — Lewis Carroll

All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land. — Deborah Harkness

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets. — Aristophanes

Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it. — Ruby Bridges

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire. — Rumi

We were four people: the children we'd been, and grown strangers now. — Julie Berry

You know, it's just politics, it's a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil' children play with toys. — Sharon Maas

No one ever grows up. They may look grown-up, but it's just the clay of time. Men and women are still children deep in their hearts. Mrs. Neville — Robert McCammon

My children are grown now, they are more independent. — Vanessa Paradis

Little children love bright, shiny things - and in my experience, most grown-up women aren't very different! — Sheherazade Goldsmith

My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups. — Enid Blyton

Somehow, out of his watch shop that never made money, he fed and dressed and cared for eleven more children after his own four were grown. — Corrie Ten Boom

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up. — J.M. Barrie

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups. — Hermann Broch

Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control. — Irwin Redlener

Children's games are stronger than you remember once you've grown up and left them behind. They're always fair, and never kind. — Seanan McGuire

Grown-ups are children who forgot how to fly. — Lobao

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith. — Mahatma Gandhi

Perhaps all grown-ups were just children carefully putting on their grown-up disguises each day and then acting accordingly. — Liane Moriarty

You can't keep children in the nursery forever. If you do, they never become grown-ups, but they're not really children either. They are just pets. — Philip Reeve

Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see. — Jonathan Kozol

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. — Madeleine L'Engle

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up. — Jeremy Irons

Children run everywhere for a reason--it's fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes. — Jim Butcher

As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it. — Sam Ewing

Children judge each other harshly, but don't make nice distinctions among the grown. — Bill Holm

I don't think kids or grown-ups should be so eager to punish "geek" enthusiasm with shaming, even if the enthusiasm is for arcane things. — David Anderegg

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children. — Ray Bradbury

Miracles are not for grown men, they are for children or unbelievers. — Sunday Adelaja

Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation. — Francesca Marciano

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked. — Enid Blyton

Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all. — Elizabeth Bowen

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head. — C.S. Lewis

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

Watch the littlest kids carefully; the biggest messages for the grown-ups are hidden there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

All children ... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world. — Thomas M. Disch

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets. — Roald Dahl

Each house has its own signature, unknown to all except the grown children who go back to visit. — Anita Shreve

The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence. — Teresa R. Funke

Children should show great understanding towards grown-ups — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I would rather be old than a grown-up. All grown-ups are angry, it's just children and old people who laugh. — Fredrik Backman

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up. — C.S. Lewis

Children never forget injustice. They forgive heaps of things grown-up people mind; but that sin is the unpardonable sin. — Virginia Woolf

Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. — Samuel Richardson

I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks. — Rumer Godden

It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people ... — Jill Paton Walsh

I'M PISSIN' ON GROWN WOMEN. R. KELLY DO IT TO CHILDREN. — Curtis Jackson

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

I'm not raising the children-I'm raising the grown-ups that they're going to be. — Louis C.K.

Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them. — Alphonse Daudet

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries. — Anthony Hecht

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics. — A. N. Wilson

In the window, I fantasize ... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight ... — David Rakoff

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better. — Eleanor Roosevelt

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were. — Anna Quindlen

Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing. — Alison Gopnik

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed. — Louisa May Alcott

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