Grownups Quotes

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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.

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.

We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.

When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.

Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.

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.

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.

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

Children want to do what grownups do.

This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.

There are poets and there are grownups.

Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.

I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

I am curious about grownups, not children.

Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.

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

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

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.

Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.

Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.

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.

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

I'll do anything for kids but I don't sign anything for grownups anymore.

Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

The world is an orphanage for grownups

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

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

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

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.

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

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

Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.