Adults Quotes · Page 20

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

— Nina Bawden

For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.

— Eric Sevareid

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

— Dennis Prager

We don't grow up. We just learn how to act like adults.

— Andrew

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

— Jules Feiffer

“Adults are always in pain. That's why we get to drink!”

— Junko Kaname

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

— Frank Warren

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

— Alison Lohman

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

— Maurice Sendak

This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself…

— Franz Wright

“How? It was a cold, rainy morning. We could've been in bed if we were adults. Not fair!”

— Zuni Blue

Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl…

— Toni Morrison

This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

We're all grown ups now, if you have a problem with someone you sort it out like adults.

— Anonymous

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what…

— George Clinton

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

— John Darnielle

I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own…

— Arthur C. Clarke

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were,…

— Anderson Cooper

I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid…

— Elizabeth Warren

I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark, where my…

— Viggo Mortensen

I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved…

— Jim Gaffigan

I've worked in several different places, most of my experience comes from spending eight summers at a camp for adults with a…

— Arthur Bradford

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly…

— Richard Dawkins

The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land…

— Walden Bello

And I think that’s a lot of the reason why when you start to fragment your audience, you start to think about…

— danah boyd

The new concept of the child as equal and the new integration of children into adult life has helped bring about a…

— Marie Winn

Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our…

— Louise J. Kaplan

She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she…

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to…

— Thomas Jefferson

As adults, if our top priorities are constantly directed toward the acquisition of more and better worldly goods, it will not take…

— Marvin J. Ashton

I think you couldn't do this role or you couldn't be Frankie Valli himself unless you had a natural falsetto. And I…

— John Lloyd Young

That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the…

— Livy

Adults are just kids who have spent a little more time on this earth.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

— Edward Snowden

“And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.”

— Angela Johnson

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

— Anne Roe

“Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions.”

— Reif Larsen

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

— Erica Bauermeister

“Sex is the playground of adults,” says psychologist Dr. Ari Tuckman”

— Kirsten Miliken

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

— Mike Rowe