Quotes about Adults

Adults are only kids grown up Votes: 5

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway. Votes: 5

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas Votes: 5

Adults are obsolete children. Votes: 3

Adults are the real monsters. Votes: 3

Adults are just outdated children. Votes: 3

Adults are only obsolete children. Votes: 3

Jesus is Santa Claus for Adults Votes: 3

Adults under threat feel like children. Votes: 3

Adults are just children who earn money. Votes: 3

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how. Votes: 3

Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what? Votes: 3

Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults. Votes: 3

Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children. Votes: 3

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted. Votes: 3

Adults forget that kids are their own best censors. Votes: 3

The creative adult is the child who has survived. Votes: 3

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. Votes: 3

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Votes: 3

Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children. Votes: 3

I love letters from little kids. Adults never proclaim themselves 'your #1 fan! Votes: 3

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good. Votes: 3

Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up. Votes: 3

Before the war. Adults must use this phrase a zillion times a day. Votes: 3

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults? Votes: 3

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. Votes: 3

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult. Votes: 3

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway Votes: 3

Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves. Votes: 3

Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them. Votes: 3

Adults always acted like they could fix everything. But they can't. And they know it. Votes: 3

Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device. Votes: 3

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. Votes: 3

Adults in a free country should be able to smoke a joint if they want to. Votes: 3

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses. Votes: 3

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children. Votes: 3

Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh. Votes: 3

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully. Votes: 3

Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did. Votes: 3

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. Votes: 3

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them. Votes: 3

I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults. Votes: 3

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. Votes: 3

Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear. Votes: 3

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? Votes: 3

Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.- Votes: 3

Adults envy the open-hearted and open-minded explorations of children; seeing their joy and curiosity, we pine for our own capacity for wide-eyed wonder. Votes: 3

Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right. Votes: 3

Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned. Votes: 3

Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids' creativity. Votes: 3

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults. Votes: 3

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. Votes: 3

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: 3

Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines. Votes: 3

I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part. Votes: 3

As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other. Votes: 3

Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day. Votes: 3

Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much. Votes: 3

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. Votes: 3

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. Votes: 3

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. Votes: 3

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world. Votes: 3

Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences. Votes: 3

The adults were completely wrong. Votes: 0

I'm generally intimidated by adults. Votes: 0

Tact is just lying for adults. Votes: 0

If children could, if adults knew. Votes: 0

Some children are wiser than adults. Votes: 0

When adults wage war, children perish. Votes: 0

Acting, is not a profession for adults. Votes: 0

I'm fascinated in the children within adults. Votes: 0

Novels are make-believe and play for adults. Votes: 0

Evolution is a fairy tale for adults Votes: 0

Everything we do is based at adults. Votes: 0

I love doing serious movies for adults. Votes: 0

Kids believe in Santa; adults believe in childhood. Votes: 0

A lot of adults are very into Halloween. Votes: 0

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. Votes: 0

At times like this, adults need a drink Votes: 0

I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers. Votes: 0

Babies cannot eat meat but some adults like milk. Votes: 0

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. Votes: 0

We did everything adults would do. What went wrong? Votes: 0

It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults. Votes: 0

Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner. Votes: 0

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. Votes: 0

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children. Votes: 0

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults Votes: 0

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults. Votes: 0

For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory. Votes: 0

Kids know nothing about racism. They're taught that by adults. Votes: 0

As children, our protests availed little. As adults, the same. Votes: 0

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison. Votes: 0

I watch cartoons the way most adults watch reality-TV shows. Votes: 0

Marriage is a cooperation between two adults holding God's hands Votes: 0

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? Votes: 0

I very much like "Canada, the adults are talking" stance. Votes: 0

Lies are for adults who are sad in their lives. Votes: 0

Children do run from me. And so do some adults. Votes: 0

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults. Votes: 0

Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children. Votes: 0

Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse. Votes: 0

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business. Votes: 0

Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care. Votes: 0

Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint. Votes: 0

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes. Votes: 0

C. diff can sometimes be life-threatening, even in healthy young adults. Votes: 0

We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children. Votes: 0

...nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet. Votes: 0

All children are curious, I think, but not all adults are. Votes: 0

Dare to be the adults we want our children to be. Votes: 0

The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest. Votes: 0

A good book written for children can be read by adults Votes: 0

A good book written for children can be read by adults. Votes: 0

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal. Votes: 0

Good jobs look a lot like kids playing and adults working. Votes: 0

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. Votes: 0

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults Votes: 0

Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones. Votes: 0

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky. Votes: 0

Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems. Votes: 0

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults. Votes: 0

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood. Votes: 0

Every adult needs a child to teach; it's the way adults learn. Votes: 0

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults. Votes: 0

The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity. Votes: 0

Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends. Votes: 0

In 2003 Scotland had 36 new business registrations per 10,000 adults. It's still the same. Votes: 0

Paris is a city for adults and women who really enjoy fashion. Votes: 0

I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults. Votes: 0

I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now. Votes: 0

I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel. Votes: 0

Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults. Votes: 0

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

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight. Votes: 0

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously. Votes: 0

The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber. Votes: 0

The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults Votes: 0

Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive. Votes: 0

If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business Votes: 0

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed. Votes: 0

Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them. Votes: 0

I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted. Votes: 0

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults. Votes: 0

Children ought not to be victims of the choices adults make for them, Votes: 0

Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal. Votes: 0

We have to step up as adults and try to guide our youth. Votes: 0

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children Votes: 0

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense. Votes: 0

The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children. Votes: 0

If you want to be treated like adults then start acting like them. Votes: 0

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

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history. Votes: 0

Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it. Votes: 0

Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them. Votes: 0

You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. Votes: 0

Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale. Votes: 0

I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac. Votes: 0

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. Votes: 0

We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee"”but there are no instant adults. Votes: 0

Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine. Votes: 0

I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility. Votes: 0

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

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. Votes: 0

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike. Votes: 0

Kids and adults have sex for many, many reasons... Put out a question box. Votes: 0

I picture Generation X as young adults living in a state of perpetual adolescence. Votes: 0

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child. Votes: 0

Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them. Votes: 0

Kids love watching adults act like children. It's that spirit they can relate to. Votes: 0

You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better. Votes: 0

It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility. Votes: 0

Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs. Votes: 0

Teens just understand the world in ways I don't think any of us adults do. Votes: 0

The PS3 will instill discipline in our children and adults alike. Everyone will know discipline. Votes: 0

Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror. Votes: 0

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children. Votes: 0

a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children. Votes: 0

We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive. Votes: 0

I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems. Votes: 0

I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults. Votes: 0

I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults. Votes: 0

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

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults. Votes: 0

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Votes: 0

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. Votes: 0

Among adults "“ and among orphans "“ Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare. Votes: 0

Libertarians believe consenting adults have the right to do whatever they choose, except band together. Votes: 0

I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults. Votes: 0

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents. Votes: 0

In adults, dependability is the fruit of maturity; in a child, it is the seed. Votes: 0

The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it. Votes: 0

Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults. Votes: 0

When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you. Votes: 0

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives. Votes: 0

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things dont exist than to talk about them. Votes: 0

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy. Votes: 0

Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives. Votes: 0

Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time. Votes: 0

I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults. Votes: 0

Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults. Votes: 0

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is. Votes: 0

Please tell me we don't grow up and turn into the adults that drive us crazy. Votes: 0

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us. Votes: 0

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves. Votes: 0

I'm sad for adults who want to be children. And children who want to be adults. Votes: 0

Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory. Votes: 0

Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults. Votes: 0

There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure. Votes: 0

Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory. Votes: 0

The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important. Votes: 0

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. Votes: 0

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids. Votes: 0

Parenthood can be very rewarding, but let's face it, so are margaritas at the adults-only pool. Votes: 0

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better. Votes: 0

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. Votes: 0

I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person. Votes: 0

Separation is where you see if it works better with the adults in two different homes. Votes: 0

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset. Votes: 0

A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself. Votes: 0

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves. Votes: 0

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only. Votes: 0

A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults. Votes: 0

Kids want nothing more than for all the important adults in their life to get along. Votes: 0

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh. Votes: 0

Children will often write, 'We love your books because there are no adults in them.' Votes: 0

They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults. Votes: 0

We're allowed as adults to create a life that we like. Kids don't have that freedom. Votes: 0

It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work. Votes: 0

Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate. Votes: 0

Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously. Votes: 0

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain. Votes: 0

Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love. Votes: 0

I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries. Votes: 0

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults. Votes: 0

The first thing to understand about working with children's dreams is that adults need to listen up. Votes: 0

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults. Votes: 0

It's 2014, and adults are still writing articles about whether other adults should read comic books or not. Votes: 0

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless. Votes: 0

Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children. Votes: 0

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults. Votes: 0

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too. Votes: 0

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults? Votes: 0

Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children. Votes: 0

Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults. Votes: 0

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous. Votes: 0

I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats. Votes: 0

We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust. Votes: 0

Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults. Votes: 0

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. Votes: 0

Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults. Votes: 0

When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money. Votes: 0

As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children, or you read books for adults. Votes: 0

I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value. Votes: 0

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment. Votes: 0

I'm often in the company of adults, so it's nice to meet girls my age or younger. Votes: 0

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults. Votes: 0

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old. Votes: 0

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults. Votes: 0

When we are young we believe to be adults; when we are adults we believe to be young. Votes: 0

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes. Votes: 0

The fact that I am so young So Immature Seems unforgivable to The decrepit Perfect and faultless adults Votes: 0

Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word. Votes: 0

Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation. Votes: 0

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults. Votes: 0

I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried. Votes: 0

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults. Votes: 0

Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike. Votes: 0

My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults. Votes: 0

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either. Votes: 0

I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals. Votes: 0

There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends. Votes: 0

I know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny. Votes: 0

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar. Votes: 0

All employees... deserve to be treated as responsible adults, if that is the behavior we expect of them. Votes: 0

Kids play make-believe all the time, so they tend to be better at using their imaginations than adults. Votes: 0

It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation. Votes: 0

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush. Votes: 0

Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds. Votes: 0

It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal. Votes: 0

You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults. Votes: 0

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds. Votes: 0

A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time. Votes: 0

Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths. Votes: 0

Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates. Votes: 0

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults. Votes: 0

Thank you 'adults who wear back packs' for letting me know that I don't have to take you seriously Votes: 0

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them. Votes: 0

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. Votes: 0

In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives. Votes: 0

This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children. Votes: 0

I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults. Votes: 0

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. Votes: 0

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. Votes: 0

We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults. Votes: 0

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults. Votes: 0

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way. Votes: 0

No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids. Votes: 0

If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population. Votes: 0

I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth. Votes: 0

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children. Votes: 0

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead. Votes: 0

We've got to stop being the stupid party. ... It's time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults. Votes: 0

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are. Votes: 0

The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible. Votes: 0

The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults. Votes: 0

I was convinced that adults would realize more what they are capable of doing if it's shown through children's eyes. Votes: 0

Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think. Votes: 0

Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image. Votes: 0

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings. Votes: 0

It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position. Votes: 0

Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't. Votes: 0

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face. Votes: 0

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged. Votes: 0

Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved. Votes: 0

I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions. Votes: 0

Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults? Votes: 0

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been. Votes: 0

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves. Votes: 0

I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children. Votes: 0

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years. Votes: 0

I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes. Votes: 0

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults. Votes: 0

Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship. Votes: 0

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway. Votes: 0

Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize. Votes: 0

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught. Votes: 0

What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children? Votes: 0

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country. Votes: 0

Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves. Votes: 0

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge. Votes: 0

From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking. Votes: 0

Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path. Votes: 0

Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well. Votes: 0

It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly. Votes: 0

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_. Votes: 0

If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skiing, cycling, climbing, and hiking. Votes: 0

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously. Votes: 0

In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children. Votes: 0

Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline. Votes: 0

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe Votes: 0

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived. Votes: 0

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination. Votes: 0

Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do? Votes: 0

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults. Votes: 0

Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love. Votes: 0

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults. Votes: 0

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to. Votes: 0

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. Votes: 0

If we don't invest now in building character into children we will surely invest more tomorrow in trying to repair adults. Votes: 0

I think it would be great if more adults were able to maintain that joyful creativity that we all experience as children. Votes: 0

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem. Votes: 0

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up Votes: 0

The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up. Votes: 0

President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things. Votes: 0

Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from. Votes: 0

We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time. Votes: 0

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas. Votes: 0

I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults. Votes: 0

Puppies and kids naturally go together, but it's up to the adults to teach them how to do it the right way. Votes: 0

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults. Votes: 0

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it. Votes: 0

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children. Votes: 0

People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace? Votes: 0

Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world. Votes: 0

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do. Votes: 0

Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words. Votes: 0

One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today. Votes: 0

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology. Votes: 0

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. Votes: 0

I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart. Votes: 0

The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults. Votes: 0

One of my favorite things about 'Spring Awakening' is that it is enjoyable and important for both kids and adults to see. Votes: 0

Apply expectations appropriately. Do not assume [all] adults are as grown up and mature as they should be, or appear to be. Votes: 0

Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters. Votes: 0

Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe. Votes: 0

Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge. Votes: 0

Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics. Votes: 0

Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children. Votes: 0

Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. Votes: 0

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code. Votes: 0

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage. Votes: 0

We value men more than women... straight love more than gay love... white skin more than black skin... and adults more than adolescents. Votes: 0

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line. Votes: 0

If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle. Votes: 0

I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm. Votes: 0

The Children's Justice Campaign reminds us of our sacred obligation as adults to raise ourselves into consciousness so that our children may thrive. Votes: 0

I'm sure that we can handle this situation maturely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr. Poopy Pants? Votes: 0

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society. Votes: 0

The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. Votes: 0

Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex. Votes: 0

I often meet adults in their 30s, 40s, or 50s who, as soon as they recognize me, suddenly become six years old again. Votes: 0

If you treat people like adults they will act like adults, but if you treat them like children they will act like children. Votes: 0

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults. Votes: 0

Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas. Votes: 0

If you have an opinion on what other adults do consensually with other adults when they take their pants off, you're a weirdo. Votes: 0

I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do. Votes: 0

I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did. Votes: 0

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun. Votes: 0

It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed. Votes: 0

I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults. Votes: 0

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them. Votes: 0

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better. Votes: 0

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. Votes: 0

I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there are children. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults. Votes: 0

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them Votes: 0

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful. Votes: 0

For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them. Votes: 0

Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults Votes: 0

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement. Votes: 0

Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring. Votes: 0

Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults. Votes: 0

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate. Votes: 0

I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years. Votes: 0

Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing. Votes: 0

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults. Votes: 0

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read. Votes: 0

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them. Votes: 0

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children? Votes: 0

Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace. Votes: 0

In fact, writing for younger adults is tougher. They remember everything and if they spot a problem, they'll be sure to let you know. Votes: 0

You know, people always warn children about taking candy from strange adults. But they never warn us adults about taking candy from strange children. Votes: 0

Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read. Votes: 0

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults. Votes: 0

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers. Votes: 0

Social thinking skills must be directly taught to children and adults with ASD. Doing so opens doors of social understandings in all areas of life. Votes: 0

Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them. Votes: 0

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the Queen of Everything, I thought it was a book for adults. Votes: 0

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. Votes: 0

I suspect that someday in a world with legal marijuana for adults, you will probably have branding that occurs for different types of the product. Votes: 0

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass. Votes: 0

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe. Votes: 0

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book. Votes: 0

I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults. Votes: 0

I give people 'If You Came Softly' when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I was younger, I always did movies that teenagers would watch, not adults. I did 'Crazy/Beautiful' or comedies like 'Bring It On.' Votes: 0

This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

Coloring is very relaxing for one thing. And I think adults like to unplug from technology for awhile and do something tangible with their hands. Votes: 0

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults. Votes: 0

I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything. Votes: 0

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun. Votes: 0

I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as 8, up to adults. Votes: 0

When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy. Votes: 0

There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults Votes: 0

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life. Votes: 0

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential. Votes: 0

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. ... Votes: 0

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes. Votes: 0

I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do? Votes: 0

When it comes to expanding opportunity, businesses and young adults are not the sources of the problem - they are a substantial part of the solution. Votes: 0

So many kids and adults, too, have gotten just about one of the roughest breaks that can happen to a person. We can help these people. Votes: 0

My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses. Votes: 0

Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned. Votes: 0

Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from other adults. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

If we want to raise young adults who know how to solve problems, we must let them have problems to solve while they are still adolescents. Votes: 0

As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully. Votes: 0

Kids are natural little outdoor people. It is we, the adults, who turn them into indoor people. If you don't get of fyour computer, why should they? Votes: 0

Gratitude is really, really attractive. A child who is genuinely grateful makes you want to do anything for her, and that is true of adults as well. Votes: 0

I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic. Votes: 0

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults. Votes: 0

I do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults. Votes: 0

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. Votes: 0

After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults. Votes: 0

I'm one of the few adults lucky enough to love their job. And when you've got bills to pay, you get on with it! I like challenges. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults. Votes: 0

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent. Votes: 0

The unit of every country is the family and the strength of the country is based on the smiles of the children and songs of the adults. Votes: 0

People forget what a big issue toilet training is for adults and kids, and it is not fun, especially when you're in a car on the interstate. Votes: 0

A new survey says one in three adults will be dressing up for Halloween. As for me, I'm not going to do anything. I'm going as Congress. Votes: 0

Whether I'm a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn't change, whether I'm with adults or with my friends. Votes: 0

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults? Votes: 0

I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do! Votes: 0

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them. Votes: 0

Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life. Votes: 0

My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now. Votes: 0

Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do. Votes: 0

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults. Votes: 0

I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more. Votes: 0

My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.' Votes: 0

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults. Votes: 0

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do. Votes: 0

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now. Votes: 0

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. Votes: 0