Adults Quotes · Page 11

“Adults think they're wielding power, but really power is wielding them”

— John Green

Even if you're an adult you still have secrets and scandals following you.

— Sara Shepard

We, as adults, have not given children the tools to grow up healthy in our society.

— Maimouna Doucoure

It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.

— Ethan Hawke

Your traditions change from when you a child to when you become an adult.

— Katharine McPhee

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

— Neil Gaiman

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

If you were a freak as a kid, you're an interesting adult.

— John Fugelsang

It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really…

— Katherine Paterson

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

— Judith Jamison

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

— Ralph Bakshi

“The way adults could talk themselves into and out of feeling okay about something always amazed her.”

— Elizabeth Stuckey-French

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.

— Jordan Knight

It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal.

— Greg Giraldo

One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.

— Sara Shandler

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

— Maya Angelou

It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or…

— Koichiro Matsuura

If you're single, use this time now to make the biggest impact you can for God's Kingdom. Enjoy how God uses you…

— Jack Graham

As you become an adult, shame gets introduced and reintroduced constantly to you. So where something that, to a child, just is…

— Justin Torres

I'm not reading any kind of fantasy [for young adults] or Hunger Games or anything like that. It's more just like geeks…

— Morgan Parker

You don't need Little League. You don't even need nine kids. Four is plenty-a pitcher, a batter, and a couple of shaggers.…

— Yogi Berra

Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then…

— Jeremy Clarkson

Raising minimum wage doesn't just benefit the workers behind me, it creates a proven ripple effect that increases wages all the way…

— Joe Biden

When you envy actors, only envy them for their good roles. Keep in mind they have to do a lot of roles…

— Bob Odenkirk

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

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

— Pope Francis

Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will…

— Peter Drucker

I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our…

— Benjamin Rush

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

— Jane Yolen

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

— Julia Sweeney

“Apparently, now and again adults take the time to sit down and contemplate what a disaster their life is. They complain without…

— Muriel Barbery

The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires…

— Gail Sheehy

The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber.

— Mo Willems

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

— Art Spiegelman

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

— Christopher Hitchens

I was really poor for most of my adult life.

— Zoe Leonard

Paris is a city for adults and women who really enjoy fashion.

— Sarah Lafleur

I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger

— Douglas Coupland

Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become

— Chris Hadfield

Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.

— Chris Hogan