No Adults Quotes

You know, people always warn children about taking candy from strange adults. But they never warn us adults about taking candy from strange children.

I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.

If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.

We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

I never thought when I was a kid that I would become an adult. I never thought of myself as having any sort of distant horizon. I have sort of leapt without a master plan.

Adult males are what their moms designed them.

It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

An adult is just a child who started to rot

Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children.

Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.

Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.

The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.

I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.

There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.

Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.

A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?

How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?

Adults are the first and foremost teachers of love, peace, truth, tolerance, happiness and spirituality to their children. No school on Earth can ever replace them.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.

I was convinced that adults would realize more what they are capable of doing if it's shown through children's eyes.

Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm not sure where this all comes from but it is how I feel.

I am an adult, but a damaged one.

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.

With teenagers, the emotions are higher and things are more dramatic. That doesn't mean adults don't also act like children in their own way.

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

Paris is a city for adults and women who really enjoy fashion.

When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.

Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.

I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.

I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

Oh contraire, mon frère. I’m able to annoy all adults in ten syllables or less. Sometimes, I don’t even have to speak at all. I just walk into the room and it rankles them.

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.