Best 20 quotes in «grown up quotes» category

I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them.

It seemed to him harder, as he got older, to find a simple way of life.

It's piles and piles of emotional homework forever if you ever want to qualify as a grown-up

One of the things I enjoy about being young is learning from my elders without them giving direct advise.

It's like I'm dreaming of the imaginary friend Katie and I had when we were little. She'd been so real to us as kids. We each remembered Anna, that's what we'd called her, just like we remembered bits of our parents. But now, in this dreamscape of Paradise Lost, our imaginary third twin has all grown up.

One of the biggest disadvantages of being grown up is seeing the time rush by faster.

Only those who'd changed could see things from a different point of view.

Pretending I’m all grown-up seems like too much work. I’d rather just be me; it’s effortless and much more fun.

She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.

Remember, it’s still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you’d have nothing to look forward to. Besides, to be wise and eighteen is as possible as catching lightning in a bottle…

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. Maturity is the possession of coping skills: we can take in our stride things that previously would have knocked us off course. We are less fragile, less easily shocked and hence more capable of engaging with situations as they really are

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.

The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.

Was there? Was it true? Or was it just grown-ups making you scared with their own fears?

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!

The Acceptance of who you are is in the embrace of who you will become.

Watch the littlest kids carefully; the biggest messages for the grown-ups are hidden there!

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.

When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.