Adults Quotes · Page 22

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

“Adults are prone to many unhappy differences of opinion.”

— Brilliant Dynamites Neon

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

— Alexander Chase

All my adult life people have been helping me.

— Stephen Hawking

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

— Lev Grossman

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

— Lee Unkrich

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

— Anonymous

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

— Rebecca West

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

— Rebecca Miller

What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

— Lois Lowry

At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult.…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

A lot of the clothes out are very adult-driven and it would be cool if they were a little bit more fun…

— Britney Spears

I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and,…

— John Kitzhaber

Your waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not…

— Darren Hardy

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed…

— Jean Cocteau

I enjoy writing for both kids and adults, though I think I'm better at children's stories because I was a teacher for…

— Rick Riordan

“In his play he is no longer an onlooker merely; he is a part of the busy world of adults. He is…

— Caroline Pratt

I think that there comes a point in the life of every young person to break away from the intimacy that they…

— Polixeni Papapetrou

Especially with the video games and social media we have now, I think that turning point from kid to sort of adult…

— Gage Munroe

A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different…

— Jane Yolen

With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is…

— Barry Privett

I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have…

— James Patterson

Youth Ministry, as traditionally organized, has also suffered the impact of social changes. Young people often fail to find responses to their…

— Pope Francis

Although we like to think of young children's lives as free of troubles, they are in fact filled with disappointment and frustration.…

— Bruno Bettelheim

It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I…

— Julia Sweeney

And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed,…

— Jane Yolen

The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a…

— Thomas Hardy

Jung said there are four archetypes adults go through, and these archetypes are reflected in the development of my work. The first…

— Wayne Dyer

As a woman, she [Penelope Cruz] obviously has changed as she has become an adult. But, as an actress, I actually might…

— Pedro Almodovar

In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a…

— Margaret Mead

Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them.

— Jim Rohn

In adults, dependability is the fruit of maturity; in a child, it is the seed.

— Richard M. Eyre

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

— Moby

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

— Jean Giraudoux

Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have.

— Victor Frederick Weisskopf

Through the eyes of a child we as adults need too grow up…ER

— Eddie Rothschild