Top 1200 Grown-Ups Quotes & Sayings

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.

Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age

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?

I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.

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

There are no grown-ups....Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.

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.

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

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

The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.

And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.

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

He was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the rate of about five to a second. He did this because there is a saying in the Neverland, that everytime you breathe, a grown-up dies; and Peter was killing them of vindictively as fast as possible.

Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.

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

Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.

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.

Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!

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.

Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.

Children succeed when grown-ups care about them.

Grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

Grown ups are certainly very strange.

My mum told me that grown-ups don't like teenagers, which is the last thing you want to hear when you are one yourself!

The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid.

I’m one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

I've been sitting at the grown-ups' table my whole life.

People like to make children into little grown-ups.

By the time I was 4 or 5, I was doing 250 push-ups and sit-ups a day. When I was 6, we bumped it up to about 500 push-ups and sit-ups a day. Some days it could even be 750 or 1,000.

Kids' lives are just as important and difficult as grown ups'.

When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

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

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

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

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.

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!

But if I could do anything? Maybe you would want to be able to save the world, the Voice said. Did you ever think of that? No. I frowned. Leave that to the grown-ups. But grown-ups are the ones destroying the world, the Voice said. Think about it.

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

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

It really is possible to disagree with someone's policies without hating them. Grown-ups can do that.

Grown-ups yell. I don't know why, but they do.

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.

For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it.

Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations.

Some things are private, Ethan. Even for grown-ups.

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

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.

Philosophy is the education of grown-ups.

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

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.

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