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Quotes About Grown

Grown men with hurt feelings are transparent creatures; grown men who feel dimly they have done something wrong are positively opaque.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Television's grown up a lot. It's a little more adult, which I think is a good thing. It allows actors to tell more complex stories. I'm happy to see where it ends up.
~ Tom Selleck
I'm a grown man. I ain't got time for all that 'you say, she say.'
~ Timbaland
I'm a grown man now, I've got a family, I understand responsibility.
~ R-Truth
Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know.
~ Kenneth Grahame
I think the word is adult!
~ Graham Norton
There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents — oh! why, why, why, are there no harbours of refuge for grown men who have not yet lost them?" And
~ Samuel Butler
I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
~ Eddie Murphy
When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.
~ Mark Twain
One is often surprised at the juvenilities which grown people indulge in at sea, and the interest they take in them, and the consuming enjoyment they get out of them.
~ Mark Twain
In a perfect example of most magician's dreary style, each and every vehicle was big, black and shiny. Even the smallest looked as if it wanted to be a hearse when it grew up.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Awake at last!" Ashfur greeted him. "The prey's probably grown old and died while we've been waiting for you.
~ Erin Hunter
I have grown up watching conventional films. I am a huge fan.
~ Ayushmann Khurrana
Would any grown girl in Russia be frightened by a "room of horror"? Westerner's lives are too calm and peaceful, is makes them afraid of all sorts of nonsense...
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
The most elemental difference between the machine and the garden is that one is driven by a force which must be introduced from without, the other grown by an energy which originates from within itself.
~ Steven Pinker
Children judge each other harshly, but don't make nice distinctions among the grown.
~ Bill Holm
My grandma taught me a lot of dirty tricks. I know places to dig in a knuckle and make a grown man scream like a little girl.
~ Susan Mallery
I want to know where my food comes from and the conditions in which it's grown. I also want to embrace traditional British produce, and seasonality.
~ Sheherazade Goldsmith
And she's striken with sudden nostalgia for the life she's been so eager to pack away, she wishes there was some way of being everything at once–grown and sure and clever, young and protected and new.
~ Sonya Hartnett
And the Earth Becomes my Throne I adapt to the Unknown Under Wandering Stars I've grown I ask no one.
~ Metallica
Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports.
~ Michael Crichton
just wasn't that interested in politics. Or else, as many would say, it was easier because I was a white privileged male. Or possibly because I'm simply a grown man, no longer a child, and understood that the world didn't always behave precisely as we wanted it to and also that people weren't all the same. I was far more interested in what people were really like, not who they voted for.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Through food, Ive become more interested in the protection of soil, the way things are grown, and biodiversity.
~ Mary McCartney