Adults Quotes · Page 17

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

— Richard Armitage

“As children, we played hide and seek with one another, as adults with ourselves.”

— Yahia Lababidi

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

— Robert T. Bakker

I had a boyfriend for a long time, and I've never really been single as an adult.

— Erin Heatherton

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

— Tim Allen

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

— Tim Walberg

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

— Jim McKay

The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.

— Hayao Miyazaki

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

— Jill Soloway

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole…

— Lisa See

“I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.”

— Karen White

Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves…

— Marge M. Kennedy

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

— Andy Hargreaves

It's exciting being around people who are adults - I actually race out the door in the morning and shout, 'Bye!'

— Davinia Taylor

How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we…

— Rick Yancey

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

— R. J. Reynolds

In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we…

— Bahman Ghobadi

I consistently run into young adults who have quickly turned away from traditional jobs at great companies to try their hand at…

— Maynard Webb

When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my…

— John Grogan

I think kids like chaos, in an interesting way. I think kids like to push buttons in adults. They like to antagonize…

— Jason Lee

Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns…

— Henry C. Link

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young…

— Graham Nash

After starting a blood feud with Fox News, something no Republican presidential candidate has dared to do before, [Donald] Trump seems to…

— Chris Hayes

Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Oh maturity's a wrapped up package deal so it seems And ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams All your friends…

— Frank Turner

In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the…

— John Dewey

By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the…

— Vin Suprynowicz

I think you grow up on every shoot you do. You do grow up because you're away from home, you're not with…

— Georgia Groome

What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to…

— Anonymous

In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in…

— Yi-Fu Tuan

The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to…

— Frank Pittman

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but…

— Harper Lee

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

— Paul McCartney

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

— Jennifer Aniston

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

— Mohsin Hamid

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

— Dennis Prager

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

— Alice Englert

“Adults are nothing more than decadent children.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

— Anna Chlumsky

Most 14-year-olds aren't in a room with adults being like, 'So, what's your brand?'

— Olivia Rodrigo