Top 1200 Grown Children Quotes & Sayings

Children succeed when grown-ups care about them.

Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

I try and treat my children from the age of ten months as if they were totally grown up, which I think is the only way to treat children.

I've seen mothers and children really being vulnerable in the refugee camps; it's supposed to be temporary, but they end up having children who have grown up in refugee camps.

All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror. Hearts weigh quite a lot. That is why it takes so long to grow one. But, as in their reading and arithmetic and drawing, different children proceed at different speeds. (It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.) Some small ones are terrible and fey, Utterly Heartless. Some are dear and sweet and Hardly Heartless at all.

It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.

Aren't grown up people just little children at heart?

I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.

Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.

Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as she does her visitors they in turn play "visitor" to perfection. Nothing hurts the feelings of children more than not being allowed to behave like grown persons when they think they are able.

When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.

I have two children. They're grown children. I don't think they particularly enjoy it when I'm in a dangerous situation, but they also understand that this is something I feel strongly about. It's what I've done my whole life.

When I'm older and my children have grown up, I would like to coach in the NBA.

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.

Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.

The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.

The only way to enjoy the fun of catching people behaving disgustingly is to have children. One has to keep having them, however, because it is incorrect to correct grown people, even if you have grown them yourself.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

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.

There are many things children accept as "grown-up things" over when they have no control and for which they have no responsibility--for instance, weddings, having babies, buying houses, and driving cars. Parents who are separating really need to help their children put divorce on that grown-up list, so that children do not see themselves as the cause of their parents' decision to live apart.

People like to make children into little grown-ups.

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.

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.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

I'M PISSIN' ON GROWN WOMEN. R. KELLY DO IT TO CHILDREN.

We have four grown children and five grandchildren... so far! So, as you can imagine, family is extremely important to us.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.

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.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

Grown people know that they do not always know the why of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. Hence the irritation they show when children keep on demanding to know if a thing is so and how the grown folks got the proof of it. It is so troublesome because it is disturbing to the pigeonhole way of life.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with a greater degree of honesty than was possible before. In getting older themselves, our adult children may begin to comprehend the burdens and strengths we carried from our own parents.

Everyone things children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I've lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murder. Kids get away with it.

Even if you can't afford to travel the world, you can take your children to the museum, zoo or local park. And don't be afraid to take them to grown-up spots. Eating out in a restaurant teaches children how to be quiet and polite and gives them the pleasure of knowing you trust them to behave.

Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up

My children have grown up around animals. They're not scared of them.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.

With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of each other, a terror life obscures but never ceases to justify. There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

To the children of yesterday, who have grown up and become parents, and to the children of today, who perhaps shout 'Tottigol,' I'd like to think that, for you, my career has become a fairytale for you to pass on.

In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight.

Speaking as the child of divorce, I have to say that one of the most disconcerting findings in 'The Longevity Project' focused on divorce: On average, grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier than children from intact families.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.