No Adults Quotes

The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big mouths and voracious appetite of the adolescent.

Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.

I'm fascinated in the children within adults.

I think kids like chaos, in an interesting way. I think kids like to push buttons in adults. They like to antagonize and cause trouble. I think it's the kid-like spirit that kids respond to.

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

This is a magical and inspiring metaphor through which adult readers will identify anger issues and discover practical methods to energize enduring change.

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.

Wipeout is a giant obstacle course for adults of all shapes, sizes, and ages. Whoever wins takes home $50,000 and gets to brag to all of their coworkers that they made it out alive!

I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.

Thank you 'adults who wear back packs' for letting me know that I don't have to take you seriously

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.

What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You've got to do something. Show us what you have.

I've met Jon Glaser who has a show on Adult Swim call Delocated and he's the main writer we hired for the show. That's really my brand of humor, I would say.

It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation.

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.

Adults don't get nearly the attention and support the kids do, maybe because they're not as cute or because people forget that autism is lifelong. But it is.

Social interactions can be enormously challenging for people on the spectrum. That's part of the reason that unemployment among autistic adults hovers near 80 percent.

I would visit Vegas every year when I was a kid. Vegas, to a kid, is a playground, as much as it is to adults. I discovered the magic store in a hotel and would spend hours and hours in there.

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.

I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults.

When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.

Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.

It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.

I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.

I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life.

In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.

When you're a kid going on being an adult, everything radiates so deeply and resonates so passionately, and I like the opportunity to tell those stories.

I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.

I want to be the kind of adult that keeps learning. I want to always be open to new experiences.

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

I'd say that kids working on sets, even if it's Bambi, need to be allowed to be kids, even if they're working, not become little adults - that to me can be distorting to kids as an experience.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

I remember Gale Gordon was in the pilot [of Hi Honey, I'm Home], and it was one of my very first professional gigs without having an adult take me to the job.

It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove ever after to get their attention.

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult.

Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to.

Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

Your traditions change from when you a child to when you become an adult.

It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.