Grown-up Quotes - page 4

Even if you can't afford to travel the world, you can take your children to the museum, zoo or local park. And don't be afraid to take them to grown-up spots. Eating out in a restaurant teaches children how to be quiet and polite and gives them the pleasure of knowing you trust them to behave. (Kimora Lee Simmons)
I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful. View quote
Kay Panabaker
By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up. View quote
Mackenzie Phillips
I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard! View quote
Maddie Hasson
I bought a year's production of flax from a single field owned by a Dutch producer. That's 10,000 kilograms of flax, enough to enable industrial level production. Now, I'm weaving it into tablecloths, tea towels, and other items at the Textile Museum in Tilburg. I'm producing hundreds of grown-up products! View quote
Christien Meindertsma
One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed) View quote
Patricia Briggs
I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss. View quote
Penelope Wilton
Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons? View quote
Sloane Crosley
When youre young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume. View quote
Willie Geist
Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it. View quote
Ruby Bridges
one's twentieth birthday. That day opened the door to a wider life: I reached out to grasp reality. But in fact it was reality which gripped me with its restrictions and constraints and rules which arrogantly claim to be the laws of life, of the universe. To be grown-up really meant resignation; one gave in (if ruefully), laughing a little at one's young dreams. (Ida Friederike Görres)
As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts. View quote
David Sedaris
You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again. View quote
Cher
He was wounded. I suppose some sharp thing in me wanted to sting him, for making me need him now. After he'd once cut me to the edge of what a soul will bear. But that was senseless.... I looked at this grown-up Loyd and tried to make sense of him, seeing clearly that he was too sweet to survive around me. I would go to my grave expecting the weapon in the empty hand. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents. View quote
Adam Sandler
Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that. View quote
Maeve Binchy
I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about. View quote
Emma Thompson
We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson... talking about Europe, talking about political reform. (Nick Clegg)
A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different. View quote
Twiggy
What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her. View quote
Roald Dahl
Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross. View quote
Maurice Sendak