No Adults Quotes

A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.

Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.

When I was younger, I always did movies that teenagers would watch, not adults. I did 'Crazy/Beautiful' or comedies like 'Bring It On.'

As a kid, there [on TV] were things I wasn't aware of - insecurities while transition from teen to adult. When I was around 17 and 18, I started seeing the benefits of this world.

You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.

I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.

My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.

A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself.

It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things dont exist than to talk about them.

The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.

One of my favorite things about 'Spring Awakening' is that it is enjoyable and important for both kids and adults to see.

I signed my deal when I was 11, and the success I had, no one could explain that to an adult, what's about to happen to them, much less a kid. There's not many people around who've experienced that.

I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life.

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth to what their adult life looks like.

Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.

An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.

I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted. I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better. I guess I was a philosophical child.

I was such a nerd. It just wasn't something I would have wanted. And I didn't want to act like an adult.

It's a little bit annoying, because it feels like everybody's taking the power away from you. Everybody's taking your adult life away from you. On one level, I used to resent it.

It's easier to see children as mini adults than it is to imagine or to remember what it is to be a child again.

People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.

There is one message children can never hear enough as they grow up, and adults should never forget as long as they live: To accomplish big things, you must first dream big dreams.

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.

I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

The human child – so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.

Adults under threat feel like children.

I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.

The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis.

I became very aware of how important it is to connect with children - possibly for the children, if they're in the mood for that - but certainly for the adults.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

The best things in life don't come in adult sizes.

I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.

I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.