Adults Quotes · Page 10

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

— Abraham Lincoln

Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults.

— Harvey Kurtzman

I'm still trying to be a kid. I really don't want to feel like an adult.

— Gilbert Arenas

I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

— J. Michael Straczynski

Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

— Diane Ackerman

She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.

— Neil Gaiman

I've always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.

— Tracee Ellis Ross

“It was unfortunate the way adults had to repress their true feelings.”

— Liane Moriarty

I was such a nerd. It just wasn't something I would have wanted. And I didn't want to act like an adult.

— Mara Wilson

My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult,…

— Geena Davis

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer.…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I remember Gale Gordon was in the pilot [of Hi Honey, I'm Home], and it was one of my very first professional…

— Julie Benz

Adults have pretty much made up their minds - they like you to the extent that you confirm what they already believe.

— Mark Kurlansky

I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect…

— Marcus du Sautoy

So many kids and adults, too, have gotten just about one of the roughest breaks that can happen to a person. We…

— Elvis Presley

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Over and over again women and men ... come to me saying, I don't know enough to write a book for adults,…

— Mabel Robinson

We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. For adults, we've got HIV and TB are still…

— Bill Gates

When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able…

— Cheri Huber

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult…

— Stephen Daldry

But when adults speak up for the vulnerable and the weak, working and demanding that safety and respect prevail, God's little lambs…

— Wess Stafford

I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles…

— Selma Blair

A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child's hand and imagination to grasp. A…

— Michael Frayn

A teenager can find lots of games, but that's not necessarily true for adults over 30. As you get older, you desire…

— Jenova Chen

My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of…

— Scarlett Johansson

He's convinced most human adults do not know how to play anymore and that playing is one of the best ways to…

— William Wharton

Mr. Harinton was real. There were adults in the world who would actually make sacrifices for others - not just for their…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

Wormholes were first introduced to the public over a century ago in a book written by an Oxford mathematician. Perhaps realizing that…

— Michio Kaku

Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from…

— Alan Lightman

I had many reasons for writing this book but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find…

— Sonia Sotomayor

When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we…

— Louise J. Kaplan

I would start by writing to an adult, maybe a high school teacher, or maybe an aunt or uncle, and writing and…

— David Sedaris

As children are wishing to be grown up, adults are wishing to be children again.

— Nishan Panwar

Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him.

— Rick Warren

“Living together alone is hell between consenting adults.”

— Michel Houellebecq

Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

— Mitch Hedberg

We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.

— Brené Brown

It's always great to hear adults say they can stand to watch our show.

— Stephen Hillenburg

I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.

— Tim Allen

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.

— Shelley Berkley