Quotation Explorer - 'Grown-Ups'

We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we are the grown-ups.
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince - ilana Graf
The grown-ups, or maybe I should say the parents, ate in the dining room. - Ann Darby
I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one. - Tom Waits
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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. - Madeleine L'Engle
Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind. - C.S. Lewis
Why are they like that?' I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek.'I don't know,' Cico answered, 'except that people, grown-ups and kids, seem to want to hurt each other - and it's worse when they're in a group. - Rudolfo Anaya
In a company of children and grown-ups, the latter are those who should demonstrate good manners and always let the children speak first. - Zoran Stojkovski
Designing for children carries a social responsibility beyond bright colors and scaled-down furnishings that only perceptive and informed grown-ups can understand. - Sharon Exley
Watch the littlest kids carefully; the biggest messages for the grown-ups are hidden there! - Mehmet Murat ildan
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