Adults Quotes

When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

Coloring is very relaxing for one thing. And I think adults like to unplug from technology for awhile and do something tangible with their hands.

As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.

I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.

Adults tend to think they have much free will. Kids younger than six are less sure. They may be more realistic!

You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'...You can't have it both ways.

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

The girls I grew up with they're living normal, adult lives. So they call me now and they're like, 'Amy, I'm pregnant.' And I still react like, 'What are you going to do? I'll drive you, I guess.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.

The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.

Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?

We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.

A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.

I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.

Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the same interests as other kids their age.

If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.

Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her.

I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal.

We've got to stop being the stupid party. It's time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.

What is a child?" he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves.

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.

I love doing serious movies for adults.

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously.

Tact is just lying for adults.

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.

Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand.

I refuse to grow up. I won't become the adult guy.

Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.

I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.

When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

Jesus is Santa Claus for Adults.