A Quote by Beverly Cleary

Children want to do what grownups do.

Beverly Cleary

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Beverly Cleary
American - Author
Born: April 12, 1916

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

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

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

Margaret Atwood

As a kid, I really did want to hang out with the grownups, so it was hanging out with the hippest grownups in the world. This was the nicest bunch of people I've worked with in show business, with the exception of the people around 'A Mighty Wind.' It really was a wonderful eight years.

Harry Shearer

I am curious about grownups, not children.

Jerzy Kosinski

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

Pope John Paul II

And that the best things that grownups do, we do for the children, and that they inspire great good in us. I also want them to remember that the world is intertwined and that we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

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

Roger Rosenblatt

We all know how tough children are with toys. It turns out grownups are much worse.

Martin Cooper

I don't really think differently of making a movie for grownups or making a movie for kids, if it's boring it's boring, so you want it to be entertaining and I think funny is funny whether it's for kids or grownups, the only real difference is language.

Jack Black

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

Children are far more interesting to work with than grownups. They're incredibly honest. They'll tell you exactly what they think.

Tim Sample

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

May Sarton

The most striking difference between little ones and grownups is that little ones cannot worry, and they cannot worry because they have no past and no future. They live only in the present moment. Just watch children. If they play, they play and don't even hear us call them and don't notice anything that is going on around them. If they eat, they eat; if they sleep, they sleep. There is a beautiful English word which describes how they do whatever they do, they do it 'whole-heartedly', whereas grownups always are half-hearted.

Maria von Trapp

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

Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never became them. One of the things we discover as we live is that we never become anything different from what we are. We are no less ourselves at forty than we were at four, and because of this we know grownups as Grownups only once in life: during our own childhood. We never meet them in our lives again, and we will miss them always.

Elizabeth Enright

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