Grown-ups Quotes

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.

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could, for grown-ups.

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.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

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.

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

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.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies.

I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.

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

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.