Grownups Quotes - Page 3

• I am curious about grownups, not children.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Children, Curious

  Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

  Monica Furlong

  Children, Giving Up, Ideas

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• [ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

  Judy Blume

  Teenager, Adults, World

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both.

  Nora Ephron

  Home, Night, Unhappy

  Nora Ephron (1991). “Nora Ephron Collected”

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• I think being young in a grownup world, I think it stunted me a little bit. I had to grow up too fast on the outside, but I didn't get to grow up on the inside in the way that you might if you're allowed to fail more.

  Laura Benanti

  Growing Up, Thinking, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.

  May Sarton

  Children, Believe, Long

  May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.60, Open Road Media

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• if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Book, Not Good Enough

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• I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

  Katherine Waterston

  Childhood, Acting, Too Late

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• The world is an orphanage for grownups

  Elizabeth Swados

  World, Orphanage

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• It's naive and even irresponsible for a grownup today to get her or his information about foreign policy and war and peace exclusively from the administration in power. It's essential to have other sources of information, to check those against one's own common sense, and to form your own judgment as to whether we ought to go to or persist in war.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  War, Common Sense, Information

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• All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

  John Grant

  Children, Adults, Adolescence

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• Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.

  Hank Ketcham

  Friendship, Use, Cry

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• This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'

  Dave Ramsey

  Children, Air, Games

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• If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free country. But for a Christian sect to claim ownership of the legal definition of a human relationship is way out of order.

  Simon Jenkins

  Christian, Country, Baby

  "The marriage of church and state is anything but gay" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

  May Sarton

  Baby, Thinking, Genius

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.63, Open Road Media

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• When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it as if it's a kind of spell that's going to protect you. I've never seen the logic of it. Cuts and bruises quickly disappear. You forget all about them. The psychological wounds inflicted by bullies with words go much deeper.

  Susan Boyle

  Bullying, Hurt, Children

  Susan Boyle (2010). “The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Growing Up, Children, Fall

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 03, 2016

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• 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

  Fun, Long, Fake

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• If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Book, Not Good Enough

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hate, Ugly, Way

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• She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

  Beverly Cleary

  Girl, Interesting, Waiting

  Beverly Cleary (2014). “Ramona 3-Book Collection: Ramona the Pest, Beezus and Ramona, Ramona the Brave”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Dream, Moving

  "The Audacity of Hope". Book by Barack Obama, www.npr.org. October 17, 2006.

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• Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.

  John Irving

  Kids, Hands, People

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• Sometimes I think he’s the kind of friend that grownups call a ‘fair-weather friend.’ That means when everything’s going smoothly, he’s the best friend a guy could want. But as soon as something goes wrong…(he) sort of turns on you.

  Barbara Park

  Mean, Thinking, Weather

  Barbara Park (2011). “Almost Starring Skinnybones”, p.25, Yearling

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• "Aren't you frightened?" Somehow I expected her to say no, to say something wise like a grownup would, or to explain that we can't presume to understand the Lord's plan. She looked away. "Yes," she finally said, "I'm frightened all the time." "Then why don't you act like it?" "I do. I just do it in private." "Because you don't trust me?" "No," she said, "because I know you're frightened, too."

  Nicholas Sparks

  Wise, Trust Me, Lord

  "A Walk To Remember". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 1999.

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