Adults Quotes · Page 42

Young citizens on the verge of becoming adults deserve a real say in the world they will inherit.

— Alex Padilla

Sophie is asking mum ‘Why am I NOT a doll NOT an adult NOT a boy NOT a giraffe?’ It’s so easy…

— Christine Caine

Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it…

— Patricia A. McKillip

I have a very eclectic group of fans. I have fans that love me for me and who have never even seen…

— Sasha Grey

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who…

— Richard Paul Evans

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning…

— Alison Gopnik

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses…

— John Mellencamp

“Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and…

— Megan Crane

In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult…

— Gregory S. Paul

And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult…

— Lisa Snowdon

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was…

— Marianne Wiggins

Many adults play roles when they speak to young children. They use silly words and sounds. They talk down to the child.…

— Eckhart Tolle

It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal…

— Timothy B. Tyson

There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused…

— Jeffrey Kluger

What fuels me is that there are a lot of people coming to Broadway and to the show [Aladdin] for the first…

— Adam Jacobs

More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another.…

— Fred Rogers

It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth…

— Paula Poundstone

When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its…

— Phillip Adams

“Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their attention as they explore their new surroundings.…

— James A. Murphy

This frenzy about cyberporn indicates some deeper fear of adults as they see kids become more independent and learn things they never…

— Seymour Papert

Studies have shown that the terms girl and lady have pejorative connotations: They conjure images of someone weaker and lazier; someone more…

— Pat Heim

Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Your lives are set out for you. You’ll become adults, then before you’re old, before you’re even middle-aged, you’ll start to donate…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it…

— Edgar Friedenberg

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.

— Catherine Jinks

Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.

— John Edgar Wideman

As you become an adult and start to make your way in life, you realize how much your friends are your family…

— Gillian Jacobs

I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for…

— Andy Rooney

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

— Gretchen Rubin

I have spent almost my entire adult life fighting to defend the religious liberty of every American to follow his or her…

— Ted Cruz

I'm not one to sit here and judge here. But I think it's funny that the people that condemn the adult industry…

— Sasha Grey

I love doing kind of more kiddish-oriented movies, but I also love doing adult things. And I think it's fun to do…

— Emma Roberts

Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles…

— Susan Patron

It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are…

— Doris Lessing

“In 2008, one in a hundred American adults was behind bars. Just what manner of people does our prison policy reveal us…

— David Cay Johnston

There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and…

— Terry Pratchett

The question isn't so much, Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult you want your child…

— Brené Brown

We've got to stop being the stupid party. It's time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults.

— Bobby Jindal

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

— Jasper Fforde