Adults Quotes · Page 13

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

— Xavier Becerra

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.

— Erin Morgenstern

“When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.”

— Rumer Godden

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

— Philip Pullman

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

— Jacob K. Javits

I refuse to grow up. I won't become the adult guy.

— Charlie Sheen

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

— Gregory Maguire

Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

— Bill Moyers

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Eric Harvey

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

— John Green

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

— Catherine McAuley

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those…

— Philip Kaufman

“Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults…

— Ryan Lilly

People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes…

— Mara Wilson

The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate…

— Susan Jacoby

For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me,…

— Anna Quindlen

The reality is that beer still outsells wine and spirits combined, and makes up 60 of all alcoholic beverage occasions. It's important…

— Pat McGauley

Something I've always said is if you think back as an adult to when you were in school, think back who your…

— Rush Limbaugh

Diet-related illnesses are causing nearly as many deaths as tobacco-related illnesses, not to mention the impact on quality of life when you…

— Anna Lappe

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into…

— Midge Decter

I tell adults about the experiences of more than a hundred teachers I've interviewed. They tell me that allowing the child to…

— Seymour Papert

As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod…

— Angela Cartwright

I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into…

— Reif Larsen

There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently…

— Howard Gardner

I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies,…

— Susan Sarandon

That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter.…

— Peter David

We need to take a less narrow look at our children’s problems and, instead, see them as windows of opportunity—a way of…

— Stanley Greenspan

Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active…

— Samuel R. Delany

[E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous…

— Emma Donoghue

I completely reject the idea that working adults need to be treated like infants or worse and not told the realities, harsh…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and…

— Haley Joel Osment

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

— Harriet Lerner

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.

— Anthony Burgess

We're adults. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop?

— Anonymous

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

— Tina Fey

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

— Dan Savage

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Fran Lebowitz