Grownups Quotes - Page 4

• Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.

  Robert Cormier

  Running, Brother, Heart

  Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.22, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Feet, Age, Way

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2010). “Cryoburn”, p.5, gfdg hfdhdg

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• Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

  Stephen King

  Real, Halloween, Childhood

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.782, Simon and Schuster

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• Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Integrity, Age, Strive

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• Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Children, Theologian

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• A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

  Julien Green

  Stars, Children, Dark

  Julien Green (1936). “Midnight”

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• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Christmas, Summer, Time

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• There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Frank Lampard, good children's stories aren't easy wins" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before.

  Marco Rubio

  Running, Country, School

  "Your World with Neil Cavuto", www.realclearpolitics.com. March 30, 2011.

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• There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Kids, Age, Sidekicks

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• Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Children, Mean, Responsibility

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Fun, Attitude, Book

  "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 07, 2016.

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• I was lucky enough to date my first love for five years. We had a very romantic, very dramatic teenage love affair. And it has impacted me because I have married a man who is simply the grownup version of my first love. So, I believe my first love was just preparing me for the man I'm married to today. And it has also impacted the way I write, because there will always be a love story in every movie I write. Always! I think having a positive first love experience before the heartbreak made me a more confident in who I am, a more confident female today.

  Amma Asante

  Teenage, Believe, Writing

  Source: aalbc.com

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• 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

  Children, Thinking, People

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• The most striking difference between little ones and grownups is that little ones cannot worry, and they cannot worry because they have no past and no future. They live only in the present moment. Just watch children. If they play, they play and don't even hear us call them and don't notice anything that is going on around them. If they eat, they eat; if they sleep, they sleep. There is a beautiful English word which describes how they do whatever they do, they do it 'whole-heartedly', whereas grownups always are half-hearted.

  Maria von Trapp

  Beautiful, Children, Sleep

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• My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.

  Anne Fadiman

  Daughter, Children, Book

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• It's to come up with a deal that both sides feel they can live with. And I think that that's probably where we're going to end up. I think that Donald Trump has people working for him who are ultimately deal-makers. And the Canadians are the same way. They're grownups about this. That's why you saw the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau not respond to Trump with the same rhetoric, but to talk about the strength of the relationship and the desire for a deal.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, People, Desire

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think Laurie's Keller story 'We are growing', resonates because when you have that amount of independence, you're starting to ask yourself questions that the grownups in your life have been answering for you. Before that, you are a good kid, or you are a funny kid, because you're told that's who you are. But when it's just you and the book, you have to figure out who you are.

  Mo Willems

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• When you have an authority figure tell you something that distinguishes you, there's a little bit of a badge of courage or pride point that comes with it, and also some relief that the grownups actually have an answer for the problem. But, at the same time, there's suspicion and defensiveness, like, Why is the way I do things a problem? Maybe the way you do things is the problem. All of these things come with the very notion that you've been described.

  Lucy Corin

  Pride, Relief, Answers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The day you realize you're a grownup is the day you realize that you have to do something. When we're kids, we don't have to do anything. Then all of a sudden you realize, if I want this to be better, I've got to do something.

  Barbara Boxer

  Kids, Want, Realizing

  Source: progressive.org

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• 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

  Children, Book, Writing

  Source: bookpage.com

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• The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.

  Philip Pullman

  Adults, Maps, Way

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• Next time I’ll just send the three of you e-mails. What was I thinking when I decided to have this meeting? (Acheron) Oh, I know. That men who are a couple of thousand years old could actually behave like grownups? (Nick) (Zarek elbowed Nick in the stomach.) Oops. Involuntary arm spasm. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Couple, Thinking, Men

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.521, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Children, Taken, Ideas

  "In the Now". Interview with John Colapinto, www.newyorker.com. March 19, 2007.

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• When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Hero, Two, Young

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances”

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