Grownups Quotations | Page 2

Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.

Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.

I am curious about grownups, not children.

Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.

But I'm still interested in grownups struggling to make their lives better. I'm certainly not interested in seeing situations that I've already seen on TV shows.

'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan.

There are poets and there are grownups.