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But I, alas, do not know how to see sheep through the walls of boxes. Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups. I have had to grow old. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget. — Matt Groening

There are no grown-ups ... Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently. — Pamela Druckerman

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

Metaphors are something grown-ups use when they can't set troublesome boys on fire. — Elizabeth Camden

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

There are a lot of grown ups who, should be sent up to their rooms, and told they must stay there, until they learn they can play fair. — Dawud Wharnsby Ali

Grown ups are certainly very strange. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Grown-ups always say that things are complicated. — Nicholas Sparks

There are lots of different ways grown-ups disappear. It's lonely being the one left behind. — Julia Green

Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

It seemed to him harder, as he got older, to find a simple way of life. — Larry McMurtry

But Schaffa is a grown-up, and grown-ups need their sleep; that's what her father always said whenever she or Chaga did something that woke him up. — N.K. Jemisin

All the grown-ups she knows keep taking bits of her guts away with them and never giving them back. — Brooke Davis

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

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

I was grown up long before the grown ups were the grown ups. — Aporva Kala

Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote. — Pierre Desproges

Grown ups' could learn a lesson from watching cartoons. — James Jean-Pierre

If our kids only expect blessings and exemptions, they will be terrible grown-ups. — Jen Hatmaker

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

But even grown-ups have elders who know better. — Ransom Riggs

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups. — Stan Lee

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. — Bob Lemon

Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good raw, and then put them in tins, and make them revolting. — Neil Gaiman

Well, you're grown-ups," she said, in a tone of voice that did its best to imply that they weren't, and that even if they were they shouldn't be. — Neil Gaiman

The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful for grown-ups. — Ada Calhoun

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age — Barbara Park

Analogies are lies grown-ups tell. — Brent Weeks

Why should anyone be frightened by a hat? — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

They would catch her. They would make sure she was all right. That's what grown-ups did. They looked after you. They - — Charlie Higson

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it. — Bill Nye

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

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

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

You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad. — Ally Carter

I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could, for grown-ups. — Caroline Rhea

You grown-ups are making too much noise! Go play Outside for awhile. February — Jack Lewis

When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups. — Charles Finch

Grown-ups really are decidedly odd", — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

My mum told me that grown-ups don't like teenagers, which is the last thing you want to hear when you are one yourself! — Ella Eyre

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

And that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves ... — Nick Joaquin

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

That is the problem with being twelve. All the grown-ups think they have a right to know your business. — Paul Kearney

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

When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know. — Rene Redzepi

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

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

And your God is nothing but a teddy bear for grown-ups. You — Osho

For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it, — Sarah Beeny

The grown-ups snapped the chillies (each made a sound terse as a satirical retort), and scattered the tiny, deadly seeds in their food. — Amit Chaudhuri

You talk just like the grown-ups!
That made me a little ashamed. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. — Duane Gish

You just talk like grown-ups! — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

God is Santa Claus for Grown-Ups. — Oliver Markus

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

Grown-ups do a lot of complaining! — Dav Pilkey

I was reminded again that there are so many things we need that can also hurt us: cars, knives, grown-ups. — Lena Dunham

Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster. — L.P. Hartley

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

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. — Gena Showalter

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups? — Edward Abbey

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

And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows. — Opal Whiteley

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

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

I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning. — Joseph Bologna

Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. — Neil Gaiman

...There is no such thing as grown ups... — Neil Gaiman

Saying everything is okay doesn't make you a grown-up. — K. Weikel

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

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

The grown-ups, or maybe I should say the parents, ate in the dining room. — Ann Darby

Some grown-ups could be so inherently stupid. Try banning homework sometime. You might see those straight A's so many parents long for. — Heather Brewer

When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and I was lucky because I had parents and teachers and grown-ups around who recognised and encouraged that. — Tony DiTerlizzi

I think we've grown so far apart, we don't even know each other anymore. — Rachel Higginson

It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head. — Neil Gaiman

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

I dunno, Ralph. We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grown-ups would do. — William Golding

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

Grown-Ups are usually guilty of something — Brian K. Vaughan

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

Founders often had to step aside to let corporate "grown-ups" raise their babies - that was just how Silicon Valley worked. — Gina Keating

You're gonna really scare them grown-ups, Paddy,' said Achilleus. 'They'll be filling their nappies in fright. — Charlie Higson

She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. — Neil Gaiman

If you're referring to yourself as a 'grown-up', then you're still totally a kid. 'Grown ups' call themselves adults — Chelsea Fine

It's so strange: grown-ups trying to become young, young ones trying to grow up and all the time, whatever people want, time moves forward, forward. — David Almond

Don't grown-ups ever get over things? — John Irving

{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

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

When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles. — Esther Dyson

It often happens with grown-ups that their tears are misunderstood. (Who can know which time in their lives they are reliving?) — John Irving

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

Some things are private, Ethan. Even for grown-ups. — Kami Garcia