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What use was her grown-up knowledge
acquired through such initiations, at such risk
in this world of infants, who had to be kept safe? — Tessa Hadley

I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life. — K.A. Applegate

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be. — Cesare Pavese

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift. — Stella McCartney

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes. — Dennis Hastert

....and in that wink I understood there might be grown men in this world who actually get a spark out of life. — Sam Shepard

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

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

As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social. — Jerome Ravetz

I began to realize that the sterile world I had grown accustomed to had dulled my creativity and limited my vision — Robin S. Sharma

I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life. — LeAnn Rimes

The world is grown so bad that wrens make pray where eagles dare not perch — William Shakespeare

What is the world coming to when you get a red card and get fined two weeks' wages for calling a grown man a wanker? — Paul Gascoigne

It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background. — Hilary Swank

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. — Oscar Wilde

I've grown extremely tired
of the face of the world. — Kiki Dimoula

Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. And grown-ups are the biggest culprits of all. — Sarvenaz Tash

Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world. — Rosemary Clement-Moore

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

What a great and happy place the world was! But you had to be big and grown-up before you could do just what you liked. — Neil M. Gunn

O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower!
How dear Thy Grace has grown!
From east to west, with loving power,
Make all the world Thine own. — Phillips Brooks

But now I know how large the world is ... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence. — Veronica Roth

How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world. — Erica Jong

I've grown up in the lap of the world. — Carmen Dell'Orefice

The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant. — Geraldine McCaughrean

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts. — Richard Steele

The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies. — Tia Carrere

Despaired of any rest or contentment in a world grown too busy for beauty and too shrewd for dreams — H.P. Lovecraft

It hadn't been easy to reach the city where Jacob had grown up. The borders in his world were more tightly guarded than the island of the Fairies. — Cornelia Funke

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable. — Jean Webster

Oh, cold world
I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms. — Elizabeth Gilbert

My fans are the best in the world! They've grown up with me and stayed with me through this entire journey. — Brian McKnight

Realizing that many you once thought the world of are nothing but glorified assholes means you've grown up. — Crystal Woods

Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death — Algernon Charles Swinburne

In the real, grown-up world, unicorns were more plentiful than Prince Charmings. — Loretta Chase

Tom Stoppard, the English-speaking world's brainiest playwright, thinks that British audiences have grown too dumb to understand his plays. — Terry Teachout

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

I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults. — John Lasseter

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

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world. — Jim Walton

The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid. — Matt Groening

Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope. — Colman Domingo

An infant's smile was the greatest promise that the world would go on, no matter how much the grown-ups mucked around with it. — Janice Maynard

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

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

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up? — Dodie Smith

Had she been too hard on her as a girl? Was that why she'd grown up so fearful, somehow, so reluctant to make her way in the world? — Maggie O'Farrell

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

He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him. — Lord Byron

Stay young as long as you can. This world can be mighty cruel to a grown up. — M.A. Wood

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

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. The things these scribblers write! — Nikolai Gogol

What's the news?
None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest,
Then is doomsday near. — William Shakespeare

Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises. — Pope Benedict XVI

Celibate? He lived and breathed sex. Considered sex the eighth wonder of the world. Suffering blue balls was for teenagers. Not grown men. — Kate Angell