Best adults & grew-up Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“People who grew up as child stars have the same thing in common. You're cute, they love you; you go through the awkward stage, they don't accept you any more. Very few make the transition to adult star.”

People Children Stars Common Accepting Stage Love You Grew Grew Up Adults Cute Transition Awkward

Author:Michael Jackson

“Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our schools. I grew up on that side of the coin.”

Should Children Important School Young Sides Grew Grew Up Adults Treats More Money Coins Young Children

Author:Steve Wozniak

“When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.”

Littles Made Reason Would Be Kids Boys Grew Grew Up Adults Made It No Reason Little Kid Little Boys Yiddish

Author:Mel Brooks

“When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.”

Ifs Stories Girl Hurt Wife Feet Dangerous Grew Grew Up Adults Independence Slave Bounds China Rage Chinese Heroines

Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

“God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated me, through the brothers and sisters I grew up with, the schools I went to, there was this influence upon me which was the faith, in the concrete. I accepted it, I questioned it, I grew up with it, and in the end, as a mature adult, I continue to accept it.”

Mean Ends School Parent Accepting Influence Brother Grew Grew Up Adults Accepted Educated Mature Concrete Brothers And Sisters Miraculous

Author:George Coyne

“Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.”

Soul Grew Grew Up Adults My Soul Cleveland

Author:Marc Edwards

“My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of my parents were extremely liberal, so I think I grew up in a household that was very politically conscious - we all watched the elections on TV, and we watched the debates. So it was an awareness that we were raised with, and as we grew into young adults, we just naturally became politically active. It was just understood that it was important, that it was our responsibility.”

“I grew up in an era when strange adults would grab me on the street and say: 'Don't do that.' You never see that these days. 'Hi, we took the liberty of spanking your son.' Oh thanks, my hand was getting worn.”

Hands Liberty Streets Strange Son Grew Grew Up Adults Thanks Eras These Days Worn Your Son Spanking

Author:Emo Philips

“Christian music was music that I grew up listening to that I can't say has had much of an impact on anything I have done in my adult life. Maybe Christianity has, but certainly not the bullshit Christian music I was listening to when I was 12. To me there's not much substance in that music. I don't have a message or anything.”

I Can Done Christian Christianity Listening Grew Messages Grew Up Adults Impact Substance Bullshit Christian Music

Author:J Tillman

“The girls I grew up with they're living normal, adult lives. So they call me now and they're like, 'Amy, I'm pregnant.' And I still react like, 'What are you going to do? I'll drive you, I guess.”

Stills Girl Grew Normal Grew Up Adults Driving Call Me Pregnant Amy

Author:Amy Schumer

“I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren't somebody's parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind of town that's a "great places to raise kids" - that's basically code for "there are no adults here who are not parents." I had a few teachers who were kind of weirdo drama teachers and were hugely influential.”

Kind Kids Parent Teacher Grew Drama Grew Up Adults Towns Raises Code Forty Influential Weirdo

Author:Meghan Daum

“I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.”

Men Book Kids Grew Lucky Grew Up Adults Cheese Yards Picture Books Stinky Yard Sale

Author:Mac Barnett

“I grew up an only child, so I was so much more adult. My eldest daughter is 10, and I was so much more of an adult than she is. She just doesn't care for the real world. She's not interested.”

World Children Real Care Grew Grew Up Daughter Adults Real World Not Interested Only Child Eldest Eldest Daughter

Author:Samantha Bee

“I reached the point in my life now that I understand as human beings we've all done some very horrible things to other human beings, and at some point, I came to grips with the fact that whoever murdered my friend is now an adult, and all I can truly hopefully pray for is that in murdering my friend it bettered their life. And I don't mean that they gained things, but just that they grew up, they regret their decision, they found a place of spirituality or God or whatever people call it.”

People Humans Mean I Can Done Facts Spirituality Found Human Beings Decision Regret Grew Praying Grew Up My Friends Adults Horrible Hopefully Horrible Things

Author:Killer Mike

“As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.”

People Knows Writing Children Animal Know How Strange Grew Grew Up Pages Adults Bottom Drawing Chickens Farms Handwriting Scribbles

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.”

Way Stills Two Mother Three House Grew Conversation Grew Up Adults Female Cat Males Grandmother Buzz Mother Grandmother Female Friends Three Sisters

Author:James Patterson

“I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.”

Grew Grew Up Adults Cartoon

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.”

World Years Wells Mean Stills Choices Pay Grew Band Grew Up Adults My Family Doctors Bills Connected Buying Uniforms Leaving Me Payment Never Leave Me

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”

Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

“It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.”

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do. He knew the way he thought things should be, and Mr. Harinton was proving that other people--even adults--could feel the same way. Nicholas had something to aim for now. He might not know what he wanted to be when he grew up, but he knew with absolute certainty how he wanted to be.”

People Knows Way Feels Should Might Wanted Purpose Grew Prove Grew Up Adults Absolutes Aim Certainty Absolute Certainty

Author:Trenton Lee Stewart

“My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?”

People Knows Kind Together Mother Grew Mom Grew Up Adults My Mom Motherhood Treated Workaholic Curfew Like A Sister Family Oriented

Author:Kelly Clarkson

“I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in music and art...I was an outcast in a lot of ways...but everything that you get picked on for or you feel makes you weird is essentially what's going to make you sexy as an adult.”

Ifs Way Feels Art Play Football Grew Grew Up Adults Sexy Bullying Outcast Tennessee Sissy Slurs

Author:Justin Timberlake

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