Grown-up Quotes

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. (Madeleine L'Engle)

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Carl Jung

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Charles Kuralt

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

E. M. Forster

The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.

Roald Dahl

As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.

Kenneth Grahame

Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.

George Orwell

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

Stephen King

In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently.

Otto Ohlendorf

When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life. (Mark Twain)

The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.

Walt Disney

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

Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don't more people speak up and say so?

Paul Goodman

Reade was an emancipating writer because he seemed to speak as man to man to resolve history into an intelligible pattern in which there was no need for miracles. Even if he was wrong, he was grown-up.

William Winwood Reade

Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo-shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.”.

Randall Jarrell

To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage weltschmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

P. J. O'Rourke

I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

Walter Jon Williams

He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.

Cornelia Funke

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

Lauren Myracle

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. (Tom Brokaw)

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

Anne Robinson

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

Barbara Park

Thank God we're not like America: everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women. I think men revere older women.

Francesca Annis

I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right.

Gayle King

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