Adults Quotes

“Adults make mistakes too.”

— Elizabeth Brundage

We adults need to stand up for our kids.

— Will Cain

I love doing serious movies for adults.

— Carla Gugino

I think the word is adult!

— Graham Norton

Rehab is just being grounded for adults.

— Anonymous

“All of us learned how to walk by failing.”

— J.R. Rim

An adult is just a child who started to rot

— Rene Barjavel

Adults are just children who earn money.

— Kenneth Branagh

Only an adult with dying dreams can appreciate how awesome it is to have a dog.

— Bill Burr

At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

— Baz Luhrmann

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

— Ne-Yo

An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?

— Baden Powell de Aquino

Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.

— Catherine Doherty

“Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.”

— Richard Ford

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

— Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these…

— Laura Benanti

A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to…

— Richard Louv

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything.…

— Stephen King

One of the most important things we adults can do for young children is to model the kind of person we would…

— Carol B Hillman

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

— Michelle Obama

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

— Carl Zimmer

Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them…

— Sandra Scarr

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

— Rick Derringer

There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult…

— William Damon

But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who…

— Maria Montessori

It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy…

— Madeleine L'Engle

With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with…

— Wendy Lustbader

There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, "I think that you might like this one [book]." So I'm grateful…

— Kate DiCamillo

When we're kids, we want to be adults. When we're adults, we want to be kids. When we're old, we want to…

— Laura S

Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I'd say that kids working on sets, even if it's Bambi, need to be allowed to be kids, even if they're working,…

— Julia Ormond

A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their…

— Robert Muchamore

I tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative,…

— Tim Lebbon

Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

This is a very challenging moment for educators. Our children are headed for a much more networked existence, one that allows for…

— Will Richardson

Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes,…

— Marianne Wiggins

The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will…

— Tim Ferriss

In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that…

— Edmund White

In my books my characters experience things as they are. My books allow youth an honest look at important issues affecting them.…

— Ellen Hopkins