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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know. -- Rene Redzepi
Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age -- Barbara Park
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups. -- Ben Horowitz
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
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
I do hope that for the young women watching the show they know it is heightened reality and just grown ups playing teenagers. That's not how it is supposed to go. Just keep it to yourself. -- Hilarie Burton
The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic... -- Cressida Cowell
My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for Twilight, although I got some in there. That was fun! There's just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups. -- Melissa Rosenberg
It's exciting when kids look up to you or kids come up to you and ask for your autograph. When grown ups come up to you, that's really not exciting. Why would a grown man be excited for meeting another grown man? -- Clinton Portis
My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight,' although I got some in there. That was fun! There's just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups. -- Melissa Rosenberg
I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
Grown-ups do a lot of complaining! -- Dav Pilkey
Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid. -- Maurice Sendak
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Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. -- Bob Lemon
I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning. -- Joseph Bologna
The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp. -- Halston Sage
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
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
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
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
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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
Philosophy is the education of grown-ups. -- Stanley Cavell
Grown ups are certainly very strange. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. -- Duane Gish
grown-ups always say that things are complicated. -- Nicholas Sparks
Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations. -- C. S. Lewis
Some things are private, Ethan. Even for grown-ups. -- Kami Garcia
People like to make children into little grown-ups. -- Mara Wilson
Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote. -- Pierre Desproges
The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid. -- Matt Groening
Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups. -- Stan Lee
Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see. -- Jonathan Kozol
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
All grown-ups were once childrenbut only few of them remember it. -- ilana Graf
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets. -- Aristophanes
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind. -- C. S. Lewis
There are no grown-ups....Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently. -- Pamela Druckerman
These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. -- Diane Arbus
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
Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it. -- Allison Winn Scotch
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
In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight... -- David Rakoff
Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation. -- Francesca Marciano
The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
You know, it's just politics, it's a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil' children play with toys. -- Sharon Maas
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
Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. -- Gena Showalter
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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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
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
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
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
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 grow-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 grown-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves... -- Nick Joaquín
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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