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Grown-ups do a lot of complaining! -- Dav Pilkey
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. -- Bob Lemon
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Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid. -- Maurice Sendak
The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies. -- Tia Carrere
Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away. -- Craig Brown
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics. -- A. N. Wilson
Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget. -- Matt Groening
If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it. -- Bill Nye
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups. -- Enid Blyton
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries. -- Anthony Hecht
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing. -- Alison Gopnik
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. -- Randall Jarrell
We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly. -- Alison Gopnik
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Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose. -- Eric Liu
Children go from being a kind of cultural protectorate to the Junior Auxiliary of the tube-watching nation at large, and programs are designed for them on the same principle as they're designed for grown-ups: as a way to sell eyeballs to advertisers. -- Jonathan Dee
I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time. -- Susan Cain
Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power. -- Dav Pilkey
Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what's going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression. -- Michael Leunig
I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like. Grown-ups behaved rationally and calmly. Grown-ups worked during the day and came home at night and sat down for drinks and passed the evening quietly. -- Caroline Knapp
Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids, I swear to you, I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups. -- Shawn Levy
I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest. -- Matisyahu
Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it. -- Macaulay Culkin
I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past. -- Matt Ridley
Grown ups are certainly very strange. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Philosophy is the education of grown-ups. -- Stanley Cavell
Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. -- Duane Gish
grown-ups always say that things are complicated. -- Nicholas Sparks
People like to make children into little grown-ups. -- Mara Wilson
Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations. -- C. S. Lewis
Some things are private, Ethan. Even for grown-ups. -- Kami Garcia
The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid. -- Matt Groening
Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age -- Barbara Park
Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups. -- Stan Lee
Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote. -- Pierre Desproges
How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups? -- Edward Abbey
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets. -- Roald Dahl
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see. -- Jonathan Kozol
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets. -- Aristophanes
All grown-ups were once childrenbut only few of them remember it. -- ilana Graf
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning. -- Joseph Bologna
I'm not raising the children-I'm raising the grown-ups that they're going to be. -- Louis C. K.
And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows. -- Opal Whiteley
There are no grown-ups....Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently. -- Pamela Druckerman
When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know. -- Rene Redzepi
Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind. -- C. S. Lewis
These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. -- Diane Arbus
The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp. -- Halston Sage
It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked. -- Enid Blyton
For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it, -- Sarah Beeny
I like all weddings, but isn't it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married? -- Gabrielle Zevin
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups. -- Ben Horowitz
Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation. -- Francesca Marciano
In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight... -- David Rakoff
Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill. -- Alfred Noyes
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. -- T.H. White
It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people ... -- Jill Paton Walsh
Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it. -- Allison Winn Scotch
Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. -- Gena Showalter
That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You know, it's just politics, it's a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil' children play with toys. -- Sharon Maas
The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing, -- Alison Gopnik
Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves. -- bell hooks
I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could, for grown-ups. -- Caroline Rhea
The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong. -- Robert Maxwell
Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes. -- Artur Schnabel
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
...and that there were many things grown-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves... -- Nick Joaquín
...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves... -- Nick Joaquín
Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. And grown-ups are the biggest culprits of all. -- Sarvenaz Tash
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It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head. -- Neil Gaiman
When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles. -- Esther Dyson
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Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights. -- Julie Burchill
Me and Fred Wolf wrote the movie [ Grown Ups]. The whole idea was about putting together old friends that get to hang out for a weekend. -- Adam Sandler
For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to do what kids know automatically. -- Ian Mckellen
When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and I was lucky because I had parents and teachers and grown-ups around who recognised and encouraged that. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster. -- L.P. Hartley
Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good raw, and then put them in tins, and make them revolting. -- Neil Gaiman
Relationships is not a game of amateurs is what people say..But they begin to foster between amateurs and become a reason to make them matured grown-ups! -- Sujit Lalwani
The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in love! Like mine! -- Frederick Franck
Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets? -- Cornelia Funke
There are a lot of grown ups who, should be sent up to their rooms, and told they must stay there, until they learn they can play fair. -- Dawud Wharnsby Ali
Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no personal reputation to secure. -- Jonathan Kozol
Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it. -- Adora Svitak
...if a child waited to speak until all the grown-ups settled down and gave her some room to say her piece, the most important things would never get said. -- Katherine Hannigan
David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about as funny as a dog in sunglasses. -- Mara Wilson
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures. -- Winston Churchill
Monuments Men' is a movie... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you're expecting 'Transformers,' you're going to be disappointed. -- Grant Heslov
Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them have no understanding of them at all. -- Michael Ende
A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately. -- George Bernard Shaw
The coaches today should realize that they are, after all, working with children who sometimes have to stand up to physical and moral stresses which not even all grown-ups could bear. -- Elena Mukhina
I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun. -- Wavy Gravy
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. -- Bob Lemon
For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids. -- David Duchovny
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. -- Robert Breault
I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it. -- Anne Frank
I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life. -- Natalie Dormer
By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age. -- Bo Jackson
Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late. -- Muriel Barbery
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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there. -- Roald Dahl
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The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you feel better?' Amelia: 'Yeah...' The Doctor: 'Everything's going to be fine. -- Steven Moffat
Miles: Well, things are kind of complicated right now. When you're a grown-up, you'll understand. Jonah: I don't want to be a grown-up. Miles: Why not? Jonah: Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated. -- Nicholas Sparks
Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held. -- Anna Quindlen

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