Many grown-up people feel obliged by such considerations to continue to acknowledge the authority of their parents over them.
"Senators are supposed to be grown-up people, not kids," he said.
People said it was like a school for grown-up people.
In my experience, not too many grown-up people are funny.
'It must be the grown-up people who have changed all this,' said Alice.
I used to be amazed how calmly grown-up people accepted it all.
Most grown-up people will never tell you that they don't know things.
Children often say little things in the innocence of their hearts that do even us grown-up people good sometimes.
"But how are you going to tell who are the good grown-up people?"
If even grown-up people couldn't do anything, then things were indeed in a bad way!