#grownup

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#being #big #children #curve #grownup

When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#grown #grown ups #grownups #know #make

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate. ↗

— Julien Green

#corners #dark #ever #fear #grownup

A grownup is a child with layers on. ↗

— Woody Harrelson

#grownup #layers

She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#grownups #pretty #beauty

I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#america #bad #before #country #feel

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. ↗

— Stephen King

#eddie #fear #grownups #horror #it

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#always #becoming #child #christmas #day

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again. ↗

— Lee Remick

#again #grownups #hollywood #i #make

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#grownups #now #running #running away #thought