Quotes with grown-ups

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  • Anna Freud Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Black Elk Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
    Black Elk
     
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  • Beah Richards Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.
    Beah Richards
    American actress (1920 - 2000)
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  • James Tyler Kent He who considers disease results to be the disease itself, and expects to do away with these as diseases, is insane. It is an insanity in medicine, an insanity that has grown out of the milder forms of mental disorder in science, crazy whims.
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  • Stephen Hawking I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Anne Tyler I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Dudley Nichols I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywood. Even when he knew nothing about his work, he brought at least knowledge of life and a more grown-up mind, a maturer feeling about the human being.
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  • Bruno Mars I don't think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it's something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems - members come and go - and some of the world's biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Aleister Crowley I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Sebastian Faulks I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Barbara Park I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Benjamin Booker I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Richard Armour I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
    Richard Armour
    American poet and author (1906 - 1989)
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  • Bill Nye If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Bob Corker If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
    Source: Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series (1963)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • A. N. Wilson It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis It is the stupidest children who are the most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown-up.
    Source: The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Silver Chair (1953), Ch. 16 : The Healing of H
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Anne Tyler It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Benjamin Clementine It stayed with me - the Bible has stayed with me. I've grown out of it because, obviously, you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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