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Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books, -- Maurice Sendak
A grownup is a child with layers on. -- Woody Harrelson
Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup. -- Ron Fournier
'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life. -- A. N. Wilson
Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died. -- Joss Whedon
Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter. -- Andrea Mitchell
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. -- Wendy Wasserstein
I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could. -- Rufus Sewell
When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it. -- Kathryn Harrison
I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act. -- Shirley Temple
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old! -- May Sarton
I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup. -- Tim Curry
No matter how fine your suit and your shoes, you will remind everyone that you are not yet a grownup man by wearing them with your old college knapsack, in its nasty, nylon glory. -- Russell Smith
A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate. -- Julien Green
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. -- Dag Hammarskjold
My favorite part on 'Energy Fields,' at the end of the track is a little girl laughing, and to me, it's a child watching the world, her friends, and so-called grownup people, and the way they try to understand the world. -- Dave Davies
It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity. -- Ellen Greene
There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on. -- J. Michael Straczynski
I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm happy to hear it. -- Ken Watanabe
I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be a teenager, but actually I think it's tougher to be in your 20s because you're expected to be a grownup and expected to earn your own living and be successful and I think you feel like a kid still. -- Nigel Cole
When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice. -- Drew Barrymore
A genius is a grownup that remained a kid. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head. -- C. S. Lewis
Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup. -- John Updike
Running is a grownup's lost link to playing outside. -- Kristin Armstrong
Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him. -- Andrew Clements
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. -- May Sarton
That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes. -- Kurt Vonnegut
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Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup. -- Seth Godin
When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left. -- Peter S. Beagle
All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child. -- John Grant
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak. -- Keith Richards
One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next. -- Beverly Cleary
Nurturing a child's sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child's life. -- Wess Stafford
Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living. -- Andrew Ferguson
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. -- Polly Horvath
I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo.... In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of which great grownup babies are expected to hide their eyes. -- Clive Bell
The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes. -- Philip Pullman

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