Adults Quotes · Page 19

...nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.

— Tina Fey

Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.

— Dan Savage

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

— Jacob K. Javits

I refuse to grow up. I won't become the adult guy.

— Charlie Sheen

Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

— Gregory Maguire

Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

— Bill Moyers

Kids want nothing more than for all the important adults in their life to get along.

— Harriet Lerner

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

— Philip Pullman

“The only difference between a child and an adult is... as adults we are just better at playing grown-up. Can we please…

— Jason P. Stadtlander

For the past couple of years I was doing the party thing - going out a lot. But now I've turned 25,…

— Paris Hilton

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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'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

It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is…

— Jerome Bruner

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living…

— Gaston Bachelard

As an adult, I think I wanna be living in New York City and help a lot of homeless people and try…

— Rachel Trachtenburg

I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production…

— Walter Dean Myers

“There are moments in which all of us need to have a backbone and feel that we have the right to say…

— Jaycee Dugard

I think play and joy and feeling good deserve more of our time. I don't see why adults are supposed to grow…

— Bobby McFerrin

Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country…

— Mary Pipher

When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a…

— Hilary Mantel

Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political…

— Malcolm X

Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont…

— Michael Jackson

I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the…

— John Green

“Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside,…

— Neil Gaiman

As the mother of six, Karen Santorum knows the power of stories to shape and mold the nature of our children. In…

— Janet Parshall

Nobody is excused from the excellence trend. Babies are not excused. Starting right after they get out of the womb, modern babies…

— Dave Barry

So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan…

— Dave Barry

It doesn't take a brilliant mind to notice that adults are telling you what to do and then they do the opposite.…

— Al Jaffee

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.

— Erin Morgenstern

“When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.”

— Rumer Godden

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

— Jana Oliver

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

— Zoe Saldana

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

— Joan Didion

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

— Xavier Becerra

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

— Ava DuVernay

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

— Nancy Friday