Quotes with grown-ups

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  • Karl Kraus A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Shirley Hazzard Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
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  • Lawana Blackwell I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • George Washington Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Anita Loos That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Booker T. Washington There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
    My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • William James We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bruno Mars A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don't know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn't have cash on him.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Cesare Pavese A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Billy Childish A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.
    Billy Childish
    English painter, author, poet and photographer (1959 - )
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  • Sydney Smith A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • George Orwell Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Charles Lamb Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Anthony Hecht Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Bernard Malamud Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Bob Dylan Come gather 'round people
    Wherever you roam
    And admit that the waters
    Around you have grown.
    And accept it that soon
    You'll be drenched to the bone.
    If your time to you is worth savin'
    Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone
    For the times they are a-changin'.
    The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Elizabeth Jennings Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?
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  • Adam Sandler Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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