Adults Quotes

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.

It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.

It's very easy to turn a toy into an adult toy: Location, location, location.

A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.

It's easier to shape a child than to repair an adult.

The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.

I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.

Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word.

Adults are just outdated children.

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult.

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.

This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

Adults in a free country should be able to smoke a joint if they want to.

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.

Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.

We've got babies raising babies, and it's important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.

What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.

Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults

Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

Part of being an adult is treating women like women.

I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

I have inquired for most of my adult life, about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent, and I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.

Babies cannot eat meat but some adults like milk.

At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.

These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for those adults to make the transition from welfare to work.

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

All employees... deserve to be treated as responsible adults, if that is the behavior we expect of them.

I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.

But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.

Every adult needs a child to teach; it’s the way adults learn.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

I know of several children and adults (with Asperger’s Syndrome) who have reported a considerable reduction in visual sensitivity and sensory overload when wearing Irlen lenses.

If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.