Grown Up Quotes

“Was it for this I uttered prayers,
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
That now, domestic as a plate,
I should retire at half-past eight?”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Selected Poetry

“It's piles and piles of emotional homework forever if you ever want to qualify as a grown-up”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“Little girls get hurt when they play grown-up games.”
― V.C. Andrews, Petals on the Wind

“We were still children, for all that we thought we weren’t. We were in that in-between place, the twilight between childish things and grown-up things.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

“Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

“The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Only those who'd changed could see
things from a different point of view.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“The days were like grown-up people, the mornings always young.”
― Halldór Laxness

“Little queen,' Madoc says with a crooked smile. Despite not sharing blood with Oak, the mischief in his expression is familiar. 'All grown up and come to devour your maker. I can't say as I blame you.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Mom and Dad could've done it," he said. "They were grown-ups. We're just . . . tall children.”
― Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

“He is wearing his golden armour again, the boy who'd been my friend disappearing into a man I don't know.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“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, The Runaway

“When you miss someone without feeling the need to want them back or let them know you do so, you’ve either grown up or given up!”
― Nitya Prakash

“I tore through The Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies in elementary school, my pretween brain vibrating with a mixture of titillation and pretension. Ahh, so many swears. Very grown-up, I would think. And Even on an island, I would know it is bad to murder a little boy with glasses, because I am a little boy with glasses..”
― Josh Gondelman, Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results

“There is no magical adult switch that activates our mighty grown-up powers.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner

“Pretending I’m all grown-up seems like too much work. I’d rather just be me; it’s effortless and much more fun.”
― Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono

“She used to be so frightened when they were young. Like a pale little ghost, slipping into the shadows, hiding from their vicious elders, trying not to be noticed.
He'd saved her once. Swept her away like a prince in a fairy tale, but that was long ago and far away and perhaps no longer mattered. How were such things counted among normal people?
For she'd thawed. He could see that now. She was no longer that frozen, scared little girl afraid to be noticed. Afraid to live. He supposed he should thank Makepeace for that. For taking his Eve, his sister, and blowing warm life into her.”
― Elizabeth Hoyt, Duke of Sin

“Was there? Was it true? Or was it just grown-ups making you scared with their own fears?”
― Alex Shearer, The Hunted

“I tore through The Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies in elementary school, my pretween brain vibrating with a mixture of titillation and pretension. Ahh, so many swears. Very grown-up, I would think. And Even on an island, I would know it is bad to murder a little boy with glasses, because I am a little boy with glasses.”
― Josh Gondelman, Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results

“I tore through The Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies in elementary school, my pretween brain vibrating with a mixture of titillation and pretension. Ahh, so many swears. Very grown-up, I would think. And Even on an island, I would know it is bad to murder a little boy with glasses, because I am a little boy with glasses. Books hit the sweet spot of my personality; they let me experience something taboo and adult...without breaking any rules.”
― Josh Gondelman

“Anyone who has grown mentally, physically spiritually knows that growth is not found in comfort.”
― Abraham Schneersohn

“Alice chewed the cake thoughtfully. What had the little treats in Wonderland tasted like? Sweeter, she thought. Would they be too sweet now? Besides growing up and out, there were other changes in her. Given a choice between a fondant-covered petit four and a bit of fat from a juicy roast, she would choose the latter.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“A tree which grown bent by itself there is not your fault in it.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“But you don't need to complain about every little thing. Just take it as it comes, be grown-up about it.”
― Hiro Arikawa

“The people who “have it all together” allowed themselves to grow up.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner

“in my opinion, that is one of the clearest signs that someone has grown up : knowing how to appreciate things that are important to others, even if they don't matter to you.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“A friend said to me – we were talking about our stage in life, when we suddenly discover that we are the grown-ups, with children and parents, and even grandparents to tend to, not to mention our pupils, patients or clients or employers – that we spend so much time dealing with it all, there is scarcely time to feel. I walked up the silent road, wondering if I couldn’t reconcile myself again to the idea of the Sabbath, to the day of dreary silence and mutton broth I’d known as a child, if we couldn’t close the shops and still the traffic and institute a modern, churchless day of contemplation and rest; and if it would help at all.”
― Kathleen Jamie, Findings

“When dreams are new realities,
and those dreams are free from oddities,
time just stops for every dream,
till it is real, or real it seems...
When we stop to dream, for a moment, my friend,
we just lose ourselves, our dreams we just lend;
the consequence of this is clear,
we are grown-up children here...
When children are forced to grow up in no time,
what’s left is for them to grow up in the mind,
to rise above everything – all else – a sky,
a fruit tree, whose fruit all the people can try...
Whenever it rains - the sky, it is crying again,
no reason, no sense, like a baby, whose diaper is stained,
yet there is one ancient truth you should now know:
right after the darkness, Dawn’s face always shows...”
― Will Advise, На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

“We’re just a couple of kids who got stuck with the mess grown-ups left behind.”
― Lee Bacon, The Last Human