grown-up behavior Quotes

Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as she does her visitors they in turn play "visitor" to perfection. Nothing hurts the feelings of children more than not being allowed to behave like grown persons when they think they are able.

When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good raw, and then put them in tins, and make them revolting.

Adults are only kids grown up

Grown-ups yell. I don't know why, but they do.

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

It's important to say that it's not just men that can be man-children. Women can be grown-up women and still have the playfulness of people who are younger.

I am curious about grownups, not children.

Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose.

When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.

Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.

I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.