Quotes of: Grownup Keyword

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

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When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.

Shannon Celebi

I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

Tim Curry

Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.

Andrea Mitchell

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

Wendy Wasserstein

To both the racist and the puritan, childhood is not a time of life that we grow out of, as the life of the child grows out of the life of the parent or as a plant grows out of the soil, but a time to be left behind, to cut oneself off from ... The c...

The Hidden Wound

I want you to move in with me, man." "Nah. I appreciate it, but I need to get a place of my own. I'm a grownup.

Hot Head

Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.

Love

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

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

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

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'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

Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child’s life.

Wess Stafford

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

Back When We Were Grownups

'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

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.

Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

No matter how fine your suit and your shoes, you will remind everyone that you are not yet a grownup man by wearing them with your old college knapsack, in its nasty, nylon glory.

Russell Smith

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