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Grownups have to say 'please,' too. -- Tommy Lasorda
When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know. -- Rene Redzepi
Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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. -- Katherine Waterston
I had left school at 16, gone to stage school - and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyone but myself. Then in 1979, I made a film with Mike Leigh called 'Grownups,' which went out on the BBC, and overnight this new career opened up. -- Lesley Manville
I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before. -- Marco Rubio
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. -- Stephen King
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. -- Bisco Hatori
We've educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren't. Grownups always say they protect their children, but they're really protecting themselves. Besides, you can't protect children. They know everything. -- Maurice Sendak
Children want to do what grownups do. -- Beverly Cleary
There are poets and there are grownups. -- Jean Cocteau
A grownup is a child with layers on. -- Woody Harrelson
God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head. -- C. S. Lewis
Call me crazy, but I still believe in you grownups! -- Kid President
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. -- May Sarton
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died. -- Joss Whedon
We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. -- Margaret Atwood
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. -- Eric Hoffer
I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again. -- Lee Remick
This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun. -- William Golding
Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup. -- Seth Godin
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Children are far more interesting to work with than grownups. They're incredibly honest. They'll tell you exactly what they think. -- Tim Sample
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
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. -- Randall Jarrell
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
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
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. -- Lenora Mattingly Weber
I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine Stories - recorded many albums, and 10 years ago I started recording kid's music, too. -- Lisa Loeb
'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan. -- Jonathan Kozol
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
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me. -- Lara St. John
I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward. -- Fatty Arbuckle
I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. -- Jessye Norman
Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow. -- Wess Stafford
I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants. -- William Joyce
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 time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love. -- Robbie Fowler
If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free country. But for a Christian sect to claim ownership of the legal definition of a human relationship is way out of order. -- Simon Jenkins
As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don't want to be stars. Everyone wants to be a star! That's the truth. Even grownups; they pretend they don't want to be one and don't care. But everyone wants to. -- Sania Mirza
I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like 'oi oi.' I thought grownups had a separate language. I've now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds. -- Temple Grandin
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not. -- Michael Morpurgo
I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that's fine. But don't make your kids do it. Because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems. -- Bill Nye
The world is an orphanage for grownups -- Elizabeth Swados
I am curious about grownups, not children. -- Jerzy Kosinski
Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them. -- John Irving
Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups? -- Pope John Paul II
Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around. -- Hank Ketcham
I'll do anything for kids but I don't sign anything for grownups anymore. -- Clinton Portis
We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do. -- William Golding
To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em. -- Paul McCartney
Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head. -- Roger Rosenblatt
Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you. -- Scarlett Thomas
I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy. -- May Sarton
Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts. -- E. B. White
People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time. -- Muriel Barbery
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. -- John Irving
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. -- Harold S. Kushner
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. -- Kate DiCamillo
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. -- Stan Lee
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
Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan. -- Jonathan Kozol

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