Quotes about Adult Children

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence. Votes: 3

Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall. Votes: 3

It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections.... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren. Votes: 3

With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with a greater degree of honesty than was possible before. In getting older themselves, our adult children may begin to comprehend the burdens and strengths we carried from our own parents. Votes: 3

Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking. Votes: 3

I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a person rather than a baby, and I was around so many actors and directors from such a young age because my dad is an actor. I was more comfortable with adults rather than actually being an adult child. Votes: 3

Adults are obsolete children. Votes: 2

Adults are just outdated children. Votes: 2

Adults under threat feel like children. Votes: 2

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how. Votes: 2

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children. Votes: 2

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. Votes: 2

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. Votes: 2

You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. Votes: 2

I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility. Votes: 2

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults? Votes: 2

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Votes: 2

I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems. Votes: 2

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children. Votes: 2

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. Votes: 2

In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children. Votes: 2

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. Votes: 2

Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Votes: 2

Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard. Votes: 2

There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books. Votes: 2

Children need adult men in their lives. Votes: 0

I wanted to make an adult vampire film, not something for children. Votes: 0

She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win. Votes: 0

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults? Votes: 0

I have a natural affinity with children and adults who cant accept adult responsibility. Votes: 0

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. Votes: 0

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time. Votes: 0

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them. Votes: 0

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it. Votes: 0

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. Votes: 0

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children. Votes: 0

Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature. Votes: 0

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. Votes: 0

I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children. Votes: 0

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. Votes: 0

There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch. Votes: 0

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were. Votes: 0

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children. Votes: 0

I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all! Votes: 0

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. Votes: 0

Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis. Votes: 0

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book. Votes: 0

Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book. Votes: 0

I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries. Votes: 0

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. Votes: 0

Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors. Votes: 0

In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who you might know. Votes: 0

My first work in comics had an Adult theme and I had to create a nom du plume to separate that work and my Children's entertainment. Votes: 0

I love nothing better than a dirty cartoon. I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children. Votes: 0

I cannot overemphasize the impact our childhood has on our ability to be honest because we live out what we learned as children in our adult relationships. Votes: 0

My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives. Votes: 0

Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book. Votes: 0

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that? Votes: 0

Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull. Votes: 0

On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to the adult mind. Votes: 0

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again. Votes: 0

Making a transition to the adult acting industry was pretty smooth for me, and I had a great balance and a great opportunity not to do just children shows. Votes: 0

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0