G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.”
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
Source: The Little Prince
“Grown-ups now, we occupy our
concrete paths, little griefs buzzing
around our ears like mosquitos.
We swat them away.
We turn our heads,
swallowing our sadness whole.”
Source: But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings
“Grown-ups often forgot that no child likes to be ordered to be nice to another child.”
Source: Ramona Quimby, age 8
“Grown-ups were always worrying about money, she knew that, but what did you need if you could eat and sit in front of the fire and read books?”
Source: Tanglewreck
“Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.”
Source: Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
“Grown-up people can wait.”
“Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.”
“Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.”
“Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson... talking about Europe, talking about political reform.”
“Grown-ups always say that things are complicated.”
“Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it’s vapid, so they’ll go for the hard words, they’ll go for the hard concepts, they’ll go for the stuff where they can learn something. Not didactic things, but passionate things.”
“Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.”
Source: The go-between
“Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!”
“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
“Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.”
Source: The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King
“Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.”
“Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”
“Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don’t have to finish books you don’t like.”
“Growning up I felt incredibly guilty anout my fantasies and the things I wanted sexually. I was like: "Why do I feel this way? I don't understand it, but nobody's going to talk to me about it because we're not allowed to talk about that..."”
“Grownup Happiness (The Sonnet)
I don't do Netflix,
I don't binge for adrenaline.
I find it far more soothing to
listen to old BBC radio shows
while I do my writing.
Happiness is not a matter of exhilaration,
Happiness is a matter of moderation.
Just because all the monkeys are partying,
doesn't mean you gotta give submission.
So I say, get your priorities straight,
Happiness will take care of itself.
If you don't know to draw your own lines,
That's not freedom, but apish descent.
I don't scroll till I pass out,
I don't drink till I feel sick.
Happiness means happy-in-less,
Trends don't bring you peace.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Grownups expect betrayal. What they can’t stand to be is powerless.”
Source: Break Her
“Grownups have to say 'please,' too.”
“Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never became them. One of the things we discover as we live is that we never become anything different from what we are. We are no less ourselves at forty than we were at four, and because of this we know grownups as Grownups only once in life: during our own childhood. We never meet them in our lives again, and we will miss them always.”
“grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.”
“Growth always involves the risk of failure.”
Source: Disciplines of the spirit
“Growth and change are never easy...If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.”
“Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met”
“Growth and comfort do not coexist.”
“Growth and empowerment requires reflection and facing the frightening, ugly, hard and unbearable reality.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Growth and expansion are one of the main characteristics of life.”
Source: 5 Reasons God Wants You to Prosper: The Believer's Pathway to a Biblical Mindset of Wealth, Prosperity, and Abundance - Accessing Heaven's Riches Soundly and Biblically
“Growth and failure go hand and hand; optimal levels of growth will never be as effective if you do not allow mistakes from time to time.”
“Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones.”
Source: Universal Laws of Success
“Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another.”
“Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.”
“Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.”
“Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that are hereditary and characteristic of the human species. But the promise they hold can only be fulfilled through the experience of free activity conducted in the environment.”
“Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.”
“Growth and senescence exists within me.
Each dawn, I am rejuvenated with the sun's glow
and with a fresh, new clove scent.
A scent that helps keep us both alert.”
Source: Fleur of Yesterday
“Growth and transformation occur not by changing who we are, but as we summon the courage to be who we are.”
Source: Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment
“Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.”
“Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.”
“Growth at an exceptional rate is a red flag in banking. It is hard enough to manage an ordinary bank; to control a sprouting weed is well-nigh impossible. If loans are expanding too quickly, the lending officers have probably been saying 'yes' too frequently.”
“Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial.”
“Growth begins at the edge of our comfort zone, where challenges become catalysts for transformation.”
“Growth begins each time we choose nourishment over numbness.”
Source: The Cocoon Philosophy: Your Journey to Unfurling
“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness”
“Growth begins where comfort ends. Embrace challenges, push boundaries, and success will follow.”
Source: Midnight Curiosity: A teens inquisitiveness
“Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care, education, elder care, and other life-affirming programs) would generate huge increases in GDP and incomes, with virtually no impact on the environment.”
Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism
“Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it only empties today of it strengths”