35 Grown-Ups Quotes for You to Enjoy

It's very important to take care of yourself. Everyone's lives are so busy. Take at least an hour a day to recharge and do whatever makes you better. For grown-ups, whether it's a spa, sitting in a park with a book, or coffee, take time for yourself. Ana Ivanovic

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

Disagree Possible Hating Someone Policies Without Them Really Grown-Ups

Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power. Dav Pilkey

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

Made Kids Only Up Screw Baseball Grown-Ups

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids. David Duchovny

Entertainment Sit Hundreds Hundreds Of Years Television Kids Major Around Years Form Sat Now Actor Grown-Ups Play Watch Watched

Grown-ups do a lot of complaining! Dav Pilkey

Complaining Lot Grown-Ups

Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose. Eric Liu

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Afghanistan has safe zones... so it's possible to send grown-ups back to that country. We can't empty Afghanistan. Erna Solberg

Country Back Possible Safe Empty Send Afghanistan Grown-Ups Zone

That's the whole reason I got into acting: I don't do this like some grown-ups have to do it, because they have families, and they have to make money. It's not my job. My dad works to support our family. So I just do it for fun. Fred Savage

My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house. Immanuel Velikovsky

I really chose a path after 'Grown Ups' of doing different things that I hadn't tried before, and just trying to take on those challenges. Jaleel White

Challenges Path Before Those Tried Take Doing Trying Just Ups Different After Really Different Things Chose Grown Grown-Ups Things

I practically lived in the woods when I was a kid, avoiding grown-ups and my dysfunctional family, pretending I was half-wolf, a feral child who napped in nests made out of ferns, ate wild blueberries, and wove sticks and feathers into her hair. Jennifer McMahon

Family Feathers Made Pretending Hair Wild Kid Out Ate Practically Sticks Child Woods Dysfunctional Avoiding Who Lived Grown-Ups Her

As a child, I was always intrigued by the question: what is it that distinguishes a city from a town? Is it size? Population? Location? When I asked grown-ups, the confident answer was that a city has to have a cathedral - which, to a child raised in a devout Catholic setting, made sense. John Burnside

Children go from being a kind of cultural protectorate to the Junior Auxiliary of the tube-watching nation at large, and programs are designed for them on the same principle as they're designed for grown-ups: as a way to sell eyeballs to advertisers. Jonathan Dee

Nation Programs Way Kind Eyeballs Advertiser Principle Go Cultural Sell Junior Same Being Children Them Large Grown-Ups Designed

Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it. Macaulay Culkin

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I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past. Matt Ridley

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

Afraid Children Who Grown-Ups

My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight,' although I got some in there. That was fun! There's just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups. Melissa Rosenberg

My sister was born a couple years after I was, and I realized that I wasn't getting enough attention, as much attention as I used to before she showed up, and then I learned pretty early on that if I could do a silly dance or make grown-ups laugh, then the attention would come back to me, and I would be accepted. Paul Rudd

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