Grown Children Quotes:

A grown child is a dangerous thing.

- Alice Walker

topic: Children, Dangerous, Grown Children

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

- Brock Yates

topic: Children, Two, Tiny, Grown Children

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.

- Tony Dungy

topic: Children, Night, Parent, Grown Children

Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.

- Andy Andrews

source: Twitter post from Feb 10, 2016

topic: Kids, Goal, Adults, Being A Parent, Raising Children

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Family, Inspiring, Children, Happy Children, Kid At Heart

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

- Joyce Maynard

source: Joyce Maynard (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.300, Macmillan

topic: Family, Mother, Children, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

Nothing is more debilitating than to care about something you can't do anything about. And you can't do anything about your adult children. You can want better for them, and maybe even begin to provide something for them, but in the long run, you cannot do anything about someone else's vibration other than hold them in the best light you can, mentally, and then project that to them. And sometimes, distance makes that much more possible than being up close to them.

- Esther Hicks

topic: Running, Children, Distance, Adult Children, Grown Children

With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with a greater degree of honesty than was possible before. In getting older themselves, our adult children may begin to comprehend the burdens and strengths we carried from our own parents.

- Wendy Lustbader

topic: Children, Honesty, Mistake, Adult Children, Grown Children

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

- Lisa Alther

source: Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.362, Open Road Media

topic: Children, Parenting, Issues, Grown Children

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

source: Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “No Time to Spare: Thinking about what Matters”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Children, Creativity, Creative, Adulthood, Survived

I understand the sensitivities of grown children with little ones of their own!! They'll turn away a mother full of advice, but they'll never say no to one holding a mop.

- Cathy Guisewite

topic: Mother, Children, Advice, Grown Children

Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it well whentheir grown children need to regress and repair. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can catch you when you start to fall. When you are in disgrace, defeat, and despair, home may be the safest place to hide.

- Frank Pittman

topic: Mother, Children, Father, Grown Children

I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.

- Leo Lionni

topic: Children, Believe, Book, Joy Of Reading, Illustrators

One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.

- Candice Olson

topic: Baby, Children, Moving, Grown Children

The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired knowledge. A half-grown panther abandoned in the wilderness will grow up to be a perfectly normal panther. But a half-grown child similarly abandoned will grow up into an unrecognizable savage, unfit for normal society. Yet there are those who insist the opposite: that we are creatures of instinct, like wolves.

- Philipp Meyer

topic: Children, Growing Up, Animal, Panthers, Inexorable

I have two children. They're grown children. I don't think they particularly enjoy it when I'm in a dangerous situation, but they also understand that this is something I feel strongly about. It's what I've done my whole life.

- Martha Raddatz

source: "Women Reporters Face Added Risks In Conflict Zones". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 22, 2011.

topic: Children, Thinking, Two, Dangerous Situations, Grown Children

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.

- Steven Johnson

source: Steven Johnson (2006). “Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter”, p.1, Penguin

topic: Memories, Children, Childhood, Talismans, Vivid Memories