Grownups Quotes
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Grownups Quotes & Sayings
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Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.
— Scarlett Thomas
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
— Eric Hoffer
Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
— Stephen King
I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
— May Sarton
There are poets and there are grownups.
— Jean Cocteau
Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.
— Catherine Ryan Hyde
Coffee is a drink for grownups. No kid ever likes coffee. It's psychoactive. Coffee is the drug of memory.
— Ian McDonald
Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.
— Seth Godin
I am curious about grownups, not children.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.
— Roger Rosenblatt
Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
— John Irving
Cute-and-furry was always an easier sell than carapaced-and-multilegged, for some obscure reason. Grownups, so unreasonable ...
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
— Stephen King
It's (Politics) rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But it's the only sport for grownups.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.
— Lee Remick
The world is an orphanage for grownups
— Elizabeth Swados
Children want to do what grownups do.
— Beverly Cleary
Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?
— Pope John Paul II
Grownups acting like the worst kind of kids, kids acting like they knew what was going on.
— Thomas Pynchon
For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
— Kate DiCamillo
Call me crazy, but I still believe in you grownups!
— Kid President
People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.
— Muriel Barbery
Kaoru: Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no fun at all.
— Bisco Hatori
You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad.
— Ally Carter
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
— Randall Jarrell
Children are far more interesting to work with than grownups. They're incredibly honest. They'll tell you exactly what they think.
— Tim Sample
Children remember staying up late. Grownups think about getting up early
— Robert Goolrick
Those of us who've bypassed the exits for marriage and children tend to motor through our thirties like unlicensed drivers, unauthorized grownups.
— Kate Bolick
Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
— Tommy Lasorda
This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
— William Golding
He sounds to himself, saying this, like an impersonator; life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
— John Updike
Grownups don't know how to believe
— Frances Griffiths