Grown Ups Quotes

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?' Instead, they demand 'How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much money does his father make?' Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / آنتوان دوسنت اگزوپري

“Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.”
― C.S. Lewis

“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, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Why are you drinking? - the little prince asked.
- In order to forget - replied the drunkard.
- To forget what? - inquired the little prince, who was already feeling sorry for him.
- To forget that I am ashamed - the drunkard confessed, hanging his head.
- Ashamed of what? - asked the little prince who wanted to help him.
- Ashamed of drinking! - concluded the drunkard, withdrawing into total silence.
And the little prince went away, puzzled.
'Grown-ups really are very, very odd', he said to himself as he continued his journey.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“grown-ups always say that things are complicated.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Bend in the Road

“There will always be those
who say you are too young and delicate
to make anything happen for yourself.
They don't see the part of you that smolders.
Don't let their doubting drown out
the sound of your own heartbeat.

You are the first drop of rain in a hurricane.

Your bravery builds beyond you.
You are needed by all the little girls
still living in secret, writing oceans
made of monsters, and
throwing like lightning.
You don't need to grow up
to find greatness.

You are so much stronger than the world
has ever believed you could be.
The world is waiting for you
to set it on fire. Trust in yourself

and burn.”
― Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers

“It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.”
― Enid Blyton, Five on a Treasure Island

“Why aren't kids allowed
to tell grown-ups when they're wrong?
They don't know
everything
Sometimes it's as if
they don't know
anything.”
― Lisa Fipps, Starfish

“Grown ups’ could learn a lesson from watching cartoons.”
― James Jean-Pierre

“Some grown-ups never grow up.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Be the kind of grown up that you needed as a child (or was fortunate to have had as one).”
― Jill Telford

“I’m going to tell you something important. 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. The truth is, there aren’t any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“They are like that. One must not hold it against them. Children should always
show great forbearance toward grown−up people.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Die Erwachsenen, so viel hatte ich schon begriffen, würden mir nichts glauben. Erwachsene glaubten mir nur selten, wenn ich die Wahrheit sagte. Warum sollten sie mir also glauben, wenn ich so etwas Merkwürdiges erzählte?”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“There are stages of becoming a grown-up. First, you definitely aren’t one. Then you pretend to be one. Then you’re sure that there are no grown -ups; that they’re mythological and don’t really exist. And then finally, maybe one day in your forties, you just are one.”
― Pamela Druckerman, There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

“It is always nice to see grown-ups act silly. They don't do it nearly enough, if you ask me.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ruby

“There is a period in the relations of children with any new grown-up in charge of them, the period between first acquaintance and the first reproof, which can only be compared to the primordial innocence of Eden. Once a reproof has been administered, this can never be recovered again.”
― Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica

“We’re just a couple of kids who got stuck with the mess grown-ups left behind.”
― Lee Bacon, The Last Human

“This grown-up thing isn’t for sissies.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Other Birds

“It's complicated,' he said out loud.
Terracotta wrinkled her nose. 'Grown-ups never say that about good things.”
― Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

“They are like that. One must not hold it against them. Children should always
show great forbearance toward grown−up people. (Chapter IV)”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I always assumed hat responsible "grown-ups" had good reasons for their behavior. By the time I turned thirty, I realized that adults are seldom driven by rational choice, but rather by mysterious forces that only psychologists and psilocybin mushrooms can sort out.”
― jason good, Rock, Meet Window: A Father-Son Story

“Some societies are made up of children.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I'm glad my condo was furnished. Because, how do you buy a couch? I have no idea. This grown-up thing isn’t for sissies.'
Truer words had never been spoken.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Other Birds

“Children are good at understanding grown-ups, but grown-ups are rarely able to understand children, which is odd because they have already been children and ought to remember what it’s like.”
― A.L. Kennedy, The Little Snake

“She loved the cemetery because it was quiet and beautiful. Grown-ups argued so much when they were alive. No one argued when they were dead. And the dead didn’t hurt you.”
― Dianna Hardy, Blood Surge

“I walk home alone by the main road so the cars will see me. Sometimes the grown-ups driving by will call the police, but it's okay because I don't do drugs or spray paints. Walking through the woods is more dangerous because there are no adults in the woods, just other kids. And kids are dangerous.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“We hated waiting for grownies to talk about eternity. It seemed so obvious that everything was already eternal. That something made all of it. Something that loved and was beautiful and was cosmically and royally ticked off with what everyone was up to.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“Silver shrugged. She knew better than to argue with grown-ups. You had to wait until they forgot about you and then get on with things.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Tanglewreck