No Adults Quotes

If children could, if adults knew.

When we are young we believe to be adults; when we are adults we believe to be young.

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

Adults are the real monsters.

I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.

Everyone has to learn to work with people - it's part of being an adult, too.

Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny.

Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our schools. I grew up on that side of the coin.

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life.

And, as an adult, I tried skiing, and I ended up in tears.

A lot of adults are very into Halloween.

I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?

... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.

No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids.

You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.

I'm sad for adults who want to be children. And children who want to be adults.

I'm really, really worried about the Trump team, and I want people on the team who I think are adults who have judgment and won't do anything stupid.

The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.

Al Gore announced Tuesday that he plans to launch a 24-hour cable news network for young adults. Gore claims he's been wanting to do this since he invented cable TV in the 1990s.

Television's grown up a lot. It's a little more adult, which I think is a good thing. It allows actors to tell more complex stories. I'm happy to see where it ends up.

I very much like "Canada, the adults are talking" stance.

But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.

When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love.

There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away.

I was really poor for most of my adult life.

Sometimes I think that kids who are given junk food then don't crave it as adults in the same way. I don't know. I'm trying to figure out what the psychology is behind it before I have children.

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.

You two are children almost grown. Your hearts have not hardened to the realities of the world. Your dreams have not fallen through your fingers. You still know hope.

Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.

The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.

The human body is the best work of art.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.

We use Halloween to scare the kids and bankers to scare the adults.

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?

The time to build your future is in your teenage years and your 20s, but equally, in your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond.

You don’t need to provide your parents with a “success story” to share at gatherings.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.

They know a lot, but they don’t know everything, and they can’t advise you on anything.They can only tell you what they believe worked / or didn’t work for them.

If parents want “success stories” to share at gatherings they should provide themselves with those, and they should not use their children for that purpose.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world.