Grown Ups Quotes
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![Madeleine L'Engle](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1305256804i/106._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Antoine de Saint-Exupéry](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1330853515i/1020792._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Anne Frank](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1343271406i/3720._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
![Antoine de Saint-Exupéry](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1330853515i/1020792._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Little Prince
- 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.”
― The Little Prince
![Clementine von Radics](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1442884188i/7049028.jpg)
“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.”
― Mouthful of Forevers
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.”
― Mouthful of Forevers
“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.”
― Starfish
to tell grown-ups when they're wrong?
They don't know
everything
Sometimes it's as if
they don't know
anything.”
― Starfish
![L.P. Hartley](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1193521188i/51606.jpg)
“Well, they don't talk to me very much," I said. "You see, they're all grown up, and they have grown-up games like whist and lawn tennis, and talking, you know, just for the sake of talking" (this seemed a strange pursuit to me).”
― The Go-Between
― The Go-Between
![Neil Gaiman](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1234150163i/1221698._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
![Antoine de Saint-Exupéry](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1330853515i/1020792._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“They are like that. One must not hold it against them. Children should always
show great forbearance toward grown−up people.”
― The Little Prince
show great forbearance toward grown−up people.”
― The Little Prince
![Neil Gaiman](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1234150163i/1221698._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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?”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
![Sara Baume](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1515721033i/8610171._UX200_CR0,17,200,200_.jpg)
“The entrepreneurs are only about my age, probably younger, but they don't seem so. Their tailored clothes and unbending hairdos, their clipboards and laser pointers, make them seem like real grown-up people in a way I have never been.”
― A Line Made By Walking
― A Line Made By Walking
![Bridget Farr](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1547858628i/18313536._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“She's going to be okay, Pav. You need to just let the adults take care of it.'
Adults have caused all the problems I've ever had.”
― Pavi Sharma's Guide to Going Home
Adults have caused all the problems I've ever had.”
― Pavi Sharma's Guide to Going Home
![Antoine de Saint-Exupéry](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1330853515i/1020792._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“They are like that. One must not hold it against them. Children should always
show great forbearance toward grown−up people. (Chapter IV)”
― The Little Prince
show great forbearance toward grown−up people. (Chapter IV)”
― The Little Prince
![Jason Good](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415732979i/7210081.jpg)
“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.”
― Rock, Meet Window: A Father-Son Story
― Rock, Meet Window: A Father-Son Story
“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.”
― There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story
― There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story
![Katherine Applegate](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1561184801i/1036736._UX200_CR0,19,200,200_.jpg)
“It is always nice to see grown-ups act silly. They don't do it nearly enough, if you ask me.”
― The One and Only Ruby
― The One and Only Ruby
![Richard Hughes](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1263135687i/295289.jpg)
“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.”
― A High Wind in Jamaica
― A High Wind in Jamaica
![Lee Bacon](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1336164551i/3453685._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“We’re just a couple of kids who got stuck with the mess grown-ups left behind.”
― The Last Human: A Novel
― The Last Human: A Novel
![Sarah Addison Allen](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1646846141i/566874._UY200_CR9,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Other Birds
Truer words had never been spoken.”
― Other Birds
![Sangu Mandanna](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1655849903i/5333630._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“It's complicated,' he said out loud.
Terracotta wrinkled her nose. 'Grown-ups never say that about good things.”
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Terracotta wrinkled her nose. 'Grown-ups never say that about good things.”
― The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
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