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  • Running is a grownup's lost link to playing outside.

  • Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

    Children   Spring   Heart  
    E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.17, Harper Collins
  • For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.

    Children   Book   Writing  
    Source: bookpage.com
  • What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

  • When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it as if it's a kind of spell that's going to protect you. I've never seen the logic of it. Cuts and bruises quickly disappear. You forget all about them. The psychological wounds inflicted by bullies with words go much deeper.

    Susan Boyle (2010). “The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story”, p.41, Simon and Schuster
  • Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

    Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage
  • There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.

    Children   Book   Writing  
    "Frank Lampard, good children's stories aren't easy wins" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2013.
  • And that the best things that grownups do, we do for the children, and that they inspire great good in us. I also want them to remember that the world is intertwined and that we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good.

    "The First Sister Reflects on Family from Motherhood to Brother Barack". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 3, 2011.
  • Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

    Integrity   Age   Strive  
  • Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

    Life   Firsts   Grownups  
    John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.281, Random House
  • I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before.

    "Your World with Neil Cavuto", www.realclearpolitics.com. March 30, 2011.
  • Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

    Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.782, Simon and Schuster
  • When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.

    People   Decision   Knows  
    "René Redzepi: In His Own Words". ABC Interview, abcnews.go.com. June 17, 2010.
  • Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.

    Book   Kids   Marketing  
  • Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.

  • There are poets and there are grownups.

    Poetry   Poet   Grownups  
  • Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

  • It's to come up with a deal that both sides feel they can live with. And I think that that's probably where we're going to end up. I think that Donald Trump has people working for him who are ultimately deal-makers. And the Canadians are the same way. They're grownups about this. That's why you saw the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau not respond to Trump with the same rhetoric, but to talk about the strength of the relationship and the desire for a deal.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I find that the majority of the year, I don't spend acting. I spend it either writing or editing or producing, or putting things together. So it's as shocking as it is tragic. I really enjoy it. It's a valuable skill set. I certainly feel like more of a grownup.

    "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day". Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.
  • We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.

    William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.101, Hamilton Books
  • As a kid, I really did want to hang out with the grownups, so it was hanging out with the hippest grownups in the world. This was the nicest bunch of people I've worked with in show business, with the exception of the people around 'A Mighty Wind.' It really was a wonderful eight years.

    Kids   Eight   Years  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • A lot of times it's the child that sees something and not the grownup. I love that because, when readers get older, they start looking for the most important ideas in the story. They don't look at things in the same way anymore. Children haven't really learned to do that yet. They take all their great, intellectual skills, look at the full page, and appreciate all of the different things.

    Children   Skills   Ideas  
    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • 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.

    Stars   Children   Dark  
    Julien Green (1936). “Midnight”
  • This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.

    Fun   Islands   Fetch  
    William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.22, Hamilton Books
  • I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • Kaoru: Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no fun at all.

    Fun   Long   Fake  
  • Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.

  • We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.

    FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 03, 2016
  • Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.

    Running   Brother   Heart  
    Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.22, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that's fine. But don't make your kids do it. Because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.

    Kids   Needs   World  
    "Bill Nye Isn't Dead, He's Gone Viral" by Nicholas Clairmont, bigthink.com.
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