Adults Quotes · Page 29

If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you…

— Cat Power

I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared…

— Alex Hirsch

There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.

— Laila Lalami

“Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

— Brené Brown

Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

— Donna Tartt

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

— Rachel Cusk

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

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

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

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

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

— Justin Torres

As an adult after college and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian…

— Alfre Woodard

I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like…

— Jesse Metcalfe

To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are…

— P. J. O'Rourke

They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly.…

— Arundhati Roy

So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we…

— Peter Singer

As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to…

— Dawna Markova

Adults use children in order to survive because now, we have this [kids] tissue that can allow us to live longer. And…

— Greg Gutfeld

Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult… Many people are often wrong……

— Janeane Garofalo

Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long…

— Anonymous

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life,…

— Anonymous

There are certain functions that the family performs. In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction,…

— Adrian Wilson

There's nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a…

— Anne Hathaway

We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.

— Michelle Rhee

I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

— Sheila Heti

Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over…

— Bill Bryson

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach…

— Walt Disney

She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were…

— Stephen King

The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension…

— Maria Montessori

“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.”

— Margaret A. Edwards

This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.

— Rumi

It's 2014, and adults are still writing articles about whether other adults should read comic books or not.

— Jamie McKelvie

I wish for myself as an adult that I cared less what people thought of me, especially people who don't know me.

— Rashida Jones

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult…

— Frank Lautenberg

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

— Glen Duncan

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

— Michael Morpurgo

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used…

— Maurice Sendak

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

— Peggy Noonan