Grownups Quotes

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

  Rene Redzepi

  People, Decision, Knows

  "René Redzepi: In His Own Words". ABC Interview, abcnews.go.com. June 17, 2010.

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• This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.

  William Golding

  Fun, Islands, Fetch

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.22, Hamilton Books

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• 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

  Wisdom, Children, Facts

  Third book of Criticism

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• Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Ignorance, Vanity, Stupidity

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• A grownup is a child with layers on.

  Woody Harrelson

  Children, Growing Up, Layers

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• Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.

  Lenora Mattingly Weber

  Christmas, Xmas, Children

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• Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.

  Joss Whedon

  Kids, Hated, Wells

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• I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that's fine.  But don't make your kids do it.  Because we need them.  We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.  We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.

  Bill Nye

  Kids, Needs, World

  "Bill Nye Isn't Dead, He's Gone Viral" by Nicholas Clairmont, bigthink.com.

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• When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Growing Up, Fear, Healing

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

  John Updike

  Life, Firsts

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.281, Random House

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• I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.

  Michael Jackson

  Life, Children, Ambition

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 27, 2013

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• Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him.

  Andrew Clements

  Lasts, Remember, Dave

  Andrew Clements, Mark Elliott (2007). “No Talking”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Sometimes

  Scarlett Thomas (2009). “PopCo”, p.97, Canongate Books

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• 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

  Beautiful, Kids, Men

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• And that the best things that grownups do, we do for the children, and that they inspire great good in us. I also want them to remember that the world is intertwined and that we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good.

  Maya Soetoro-Ng

  Children, Impact, Inspire

  "The First Sister Reflects on Family from Motherhood to Brother Barack". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 3, 2011.

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• Running is a grownup's lost link to playing outside.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Playing Outside, Links

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• That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Mosaics, Jokes

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.192, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.

  Maurice Sendak

  Book, Kids, Marketing

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• God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Heart, Want

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.74, HarperCollins UK

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• To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.

  Paul McCartney

  Ukulele, Play, Ems

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• Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child’s life.

  Wess Stafford

  Dream, Children, Responsibility

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.35, WaterBrook

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• We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Romance, Running Away

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just playground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about.

  Stephen King

  Baseball, War, Kids

  Stephen King (1999). “Hearts In Atlantis”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.

  Ron Fournier

  Night, Election

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• Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never became them. One of the things we discover as we live is that we never become anything different from what we are. We are no less ourselves at forty than we were at four, and because of this we know grownups as Grownups only once in life: during our own childhood. We never meet them in our lives again, and we will miss them always.

  Elizabeth Enright

  Childhood, Missing, Different

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