Adults Quotes · Page 46

It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes…

— Anonymous

I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote.

— Anonymous

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

— Jack Kevorkian

“Because the thought that we weren’t happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults”

— Jo Nesbø

Child: Why on this night do we eat Hot Fudge Sundaes? Adult: To remind us that being Jewish is like having your…

— Jon Stewart

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

The PS3 will instill discipline in our children and adults alike. Everyone will know discipline.

— Ken Kutaragi

I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but…

— Jonathan Kozol

I found a 1992 New York Times article:Bill Clinton playing golf at a club that he played at all of his adult…

— Sean Hannity

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between…

— George Will

In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I…

— Hayao Miyazaki

I was 13 and a teenager, as well. When you're that age, you want to be an adult, in a way, but…

— Elle Fanning

The Song is a gritty, realistic, and powerful film. The acting and production quality are excellent, and the story is captivating. Although…

— Alex Kendrick

Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like…

— Michael Gurian

What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are.…

— Jenny McCarthy

I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a…

— Bill Maher

Even if there was such a thing as a half-price sale at the local Ming outlet shop, she would have to work…

— Alexandra Ivy

So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you…

— Ellen Bass

We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories…

— Markus Zusak

...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations…

— Chris Crutcher

When you are still young and not yet adult, you want to hold everything in your own hands, but if you have…

— Henri Nouwen

Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best…

— Paulo Coelho

Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass…

— Cheryl Strayed

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

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel…

— Jarvis Cocker

When your trying to be an adult in a relationship you seriously don't need to lie or front and try to put…

— Gabrielle Dennis

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

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

— Judith Jamison

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

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

Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect…

— Chris Cornell

Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

— Elizabeth Olsen