Grown Up Quotes
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I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.
— Felicity Kendal
The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think?
— Salman Rushdie
Now that the space race is over and I can't help but feel that we have all grown up too soon.
— Billy Bragg
It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?
— Augusten Burroughs
The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore.
— David Lagercrantz
For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.
— Stella McCartney
Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.
— Mary Pope Osborne
How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.
— Mary Karr
With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.
— David Beckham
There are a lot of grown ups who, should be sent up to their rooms, and told they must stay there, until they learn they can play fair.
— Dawud Wharnsby Ali
I feel so fortunate to have grown up in a town like Kansas City that has such a vibrant theater community.
— Katherine McNamara
Aren't grown up people just little children at heart?
— Adolphe Menjou
Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.
— John Thorn
I've aged, but I don't think I've grown up.
— Helena Bonham Carter
There's nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a grown-up actress.
— Anne Hathaway
Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.
— Emily Giffin
It'll be kids next. I like the grown-up stuff. I like having a house. I've got dogs.
— Leighton Meester
Now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought
— Jane Austen
I've grown up watching football my whole life.
— Marisa Miller
I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had.
— Christina Applegate
But Schaffa is a grown-up, and grown-ups need their sleep; that's what her father always said whenever she or Chaga did something that woke him up.
— N.K. Jemisin
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
— P.L. Travers
Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.
— Gugu Mbatha-Raw
The strict mother she & her brother had grown up with was body-snatched. "...Who are you? What did you do with my mother?
— Lesley Stahl
There is a certain generation who have grown up being able to mash up, to tinker with, every system they've ever encountered.
— Jennifer Pahlka
They were more like the grown-up dog whose family loved it but had to move to an apartment in Korea (is it Korea?) where people sometimes eat dogs.
— Ann Brashares
I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world.
— Rosemary Clement-Moore
By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.
— Mackenzie Phillips
Everybody needs to stop saying that. You don't get to be the mother if you show up after the kids are already grown up.
— Rainbow Rowell
Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.
— Gregory Benford
I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
— Maurice Sendak
My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.
— Holly Near
As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.
— Sam Ewing
I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.
— Ray Bradbury
He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.
— Anne Frank
But, really, are there any guys out there who aren't jerks? I don't even know any grown-up men who aren't jerks.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
Power sits uneasily on those one has grown up with. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Spy.
— John Le Carre
When I'm all grown up, come what may,
I'll build a boat to carry me away — Guy Gavriel Kay
I'll build a boat to carry me away — Guy Gavriel Kay
Only grown-up men are scared of women.
— Ernest Lehman
Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.
— Beah Richards
My kids have grown up knowing nothing other than me being gone all the time and playing in golf tournaments. That's what they know.
— Stewart Cink
Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.
— Lauren Myracle
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
— Jeremy Irons
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.
— Derek Walcott
It's hard to keep passing myself off as a grown-up when a piece of me is still six years old and utterly at the mercy of authority.
— Sue Grafton
Old age is not just for grown up's
— Benny Bellamacina
I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.
— Vijender Singh
When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
— Kate Micucci
I used to hate looking in the mirror. I've grown up into myself and now I'm happy with the way I look.
— Ashley Tisdale
I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.
— Mandy Moore
In 1482, Quasimodo was about twenty years of age; Claude Frollo, about thirty-six. One had grown up, the other had grown old.
— Victor Hugo
If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.
— Stephen King
You've grown up, girl. You've grown up real nice, Welcome home
— Elizabeth Chandler
I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
— John Lasseter
When I got Traded To The Celtics, I was so Happy Because I was Back home And Had Grown Up Idolizing The Celtics
— Chris Herren
What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.
— Roald Dahl
In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my hair.
— Lily Cole
Watch the littlest kids carefully; the biggest messages for the grown-ups are hidden there!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
All children ... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.
— Thomas M. Disch
That's because our parents pick out our shoes," said Patricia. "Just wait until we're grown up. Our shoes will be insane.
— Charlie Jane Anders
Sometimes being a grown-up sucks hairy balls!
— Anonymous
It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.
— Claire Tomalin
Maybe that was what grown-up life was really about. Doing what everyone else thought you should do.
— Josh Lanyon
Because I know. Grown-up white men don't want to pretend to be anything else. Not even for a minute.
— Alice Walker
When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.
— Jonathan Rhys Meyers
This is the most difficult and important thing to accept if you wish to be a grown-up: You are not a Special Snowflake.
— Kelly Williams Brown
He'd been trying to save this woman in his dreams for years. Now here she was, all grown up, and he still felt helpless.
— B. J. Daniels
A crying grown-up with no visible damage, who knew what that meant?
— John Elder Robison
I think my mom and dad have an incredible work ethic, and we've grown up around it.
— Kendall Jenner
Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have grown up, too.
— Warren Spector
Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.
— Elizabeth Bowen
The thoughts we think in
childhood, Captain, are the fathers of the thoughts we think when we
are grown up. — Henry De Vere Stacpoole
childhood, Captain, are the fathers of the thoughts we think when we
are grown up. — Henry De Vere Stacpoole
No, no, no, I've just grown up too much to be hurt by what people's opinion of my love life is.
— Angelina Jolie
Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up
— Lewis Carroll
If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.
— Betty Smith
I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.
— Justin Timberlake
Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
— D. B. Sweeney
I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them.
— Claire Wong
I keep thinking I'm a grown up, but I'm not.
— Victoria Tennant
You said you didn't know how to have a grown-up relationship. Well, here's your first lesson, Maise. When it gets hard, you don't run away.
— Leah Raeder
Here's to never grown up!
— Avril Lavigne