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Top 25 Grown-up Quotes - Quotesdtb.com

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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Charles Kuralt
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person. View quote
George Orwell
If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die. View quote
Stephen King
In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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? View quote
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. View quote
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.”. View quote
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? View quote
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. View quote
Walter Jon Williams
He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Anne Robinson
I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Gayle King