33 Quotes About Grown-ups
- Author L.P. Hartley
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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).
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- Author Catherynne M. Valente
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Who told you you couldn't come back when you're grown? Was it the same person who told you grown-ups don't cry or blush or clap their hands when they're happy? Don't try to say otherwise, I've seen you fighting like a boxer to change your face so that it never shows anything. Whoever told you that's what growing up means is a villain, as true as a mustache. I am growing up, too, and look at me! I cry and I blush and I live in Fairyland always!
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- Author Larry McMurtry
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When he walked out into the lots to catch his horse, he felt grown and complete for the first time in his life.
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- Author Bridget Farr
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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.
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- Author Enid Blyton
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It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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- Author Nicholas Sparks
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Miles: Well, things are kind of complicated right now. When you’re a grown-up, you’ll understand.Jonah: I don’t want to be a grown-up.Miles: Why not?Jonah: Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.
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- Author Agona Apell
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There are three houses that the ultimate adult must leave: their parents' house, their employer's house, and their teacher's house. So they must someday found their own home, their own business, and their own school of thought so that they can live under their own roof at home, at work, and in thought.
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- Author Sara Baume
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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.
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- Author Neil Gaiman
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She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.
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