Adults Quotes

Kids like classic rock, and so do adults.

— Wolfman Jack

At times like this, adults need a drink

— Haruki Murakami

Acting, is not a profession for adults.

— Laurence Olivier

The adults were completely wrong.

— Aaron Swartz

“Make you life the greatest story told!”

— Marie Guillaume

Adults are just outdated children.

— Dr. Seuss

“Do adults realize how lucky they are?”

— Stephanie Perkins

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

— Michael Reagan

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

— Xavier Becerra

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

— Joan Didion

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

— Zoe Saldana

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

— Jana Oliver

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

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

— Nancy Friday

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

— Ava DuVernay

Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.

— Anonymous

Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to…

— Phyllis McGinley

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult…

— Christina Ricci

The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the…

— Maria Montessori

“Adults like to say that childhood passes quickly, that it's over in the blink of an eye. I can't agree. When you…

— Sergey Grechishkin

If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.

— Black Hawk

My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.

— Pete McCloskey

I have spent my adult life trying to figure out why parents and society put themselves into a race -- what's the…

— Magda Gerber

I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

While I had many friends as a child I aslo kept a great deal to myself. I noticed that adults were drawn…

— Frederick Lenz

The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that…

— Jane Campion

What is a child?" he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their…

— C.S. Friedman

To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on…

— Banana Yoshimoto

I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm…

— Padma Lakshmi

The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings…

— Lloyd deMause

My kids that's their backyard. I think when they're adults, their memories will be mostly of spending time at beach, the exploration,…

— Gabrielle Reece

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love -…

— Katherine Mansfield

I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing…

— D. Patrick Miller

In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult.…

— Jean Piaget

Incredibly, nearly 70,000 Young Adults between 15-39 are diagnosed with cancer each year. 10,000 will not survive. This is a very important…

— Jenna Morasca

New Rule: I don't give two fingleberries and a McShit-all that Dumbledore is gay. I never wanted to know who Dumbledore was…

— Bill Maher

I love young adult fantasies. While I say that, I have not seen all of the Twilight and Harry Potter movies. But…

— Viola Davis