Adults Quotes · Page 12

“caught up in the exciting world of adults and their antics”

— Cathie Pelletier

For the First Time in My Adult Lifetime, I'm Really Proud of My Country

— Michel'le

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

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Children understand...things far better. Adults always make things so complicated.”

— Cecelia Ahern

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

— David Frost

Adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles

— Mike Pence

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

— Robert Crumb

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

— Ava DuVernay

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

— Michael Josephson

Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order…

— Bobby McFerrin

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

— Sara Shepard

We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the…

— George Carlin

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

— Alfred Korzybski

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

— Mike Penner

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults…

— Keith Johnstone

But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that…

— Tom Ford

In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased…

— Philippe Aries

X-Men is not a story about superheroes, but a story about the ongoing revolutionary struggle between good/new and bad/old. The X-Men are…

— Grant Morrison

Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an…

— Kelly Corrigan

I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and…

— Ann M. Martin

It's the same challenge as with any other character, adults or not. You want to take time with the kids. You want…

— Philippe Falardeau

I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation…

— Rachel Nichols

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in…

— Robert McCloskey

We have other opposite problems with circadian rhythms that can happen when you - a lot of times with older adults. They…

— Shelby Harris

Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live…

— Lawrence M. Friedman

I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I…

— Lloyd Alexander

“Though the children did not know Levin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they did not feel…

— Leo Tolstoy

I feel that in all kids that I've came across, that at the age of 12-13 is a big transition . They…

— Richard Cabral

What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature.…

— Charles Krauthammer

Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off…

— Jonathan Clements

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

— Nancy Friday

A little bit of laughter and an occasional adult beverage never hurt nobody.

— Erica Tazel

Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

— Fran Lebowitz

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

— Serj Tankian

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

— Maxim Gorky

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

— Jana Oliver

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

— Zoe Saldana

I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.

— Joan Didion