Adults Quotes · Page 7

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

— John D. MacDonald

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

“The words spoken over our lives from childhood manifest into the adults we become”

— Vese Aghoghovbia Aladewolu

We don’t really care about test scores. We care about adult outcomes.

— Raj Chetty

Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.

— Tom Bodett

When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

— Alan Cumming

I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.

— Josh Hopkins

“Nothing is free now that we're all adults.”

— Ani Baker

“The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world.”

— Catherine Lacey

Gay adults start as gay kids... Now they've got to figure out how to be with each other and be with family,…

— Peter Paige

We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.

— Gary Webb

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

— A. A. Gill

I've been an exercise maniac most of my adult life, running marathons and triathlons, doing that as a regular way of life.…

— Wayne Dyer

I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it…

— Anna Quindlen

It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove…

— Julie Smith

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

— Mason Cooley

We're not trying to raise good kids. We're trying to raise kids who become great adults. That's a very different thing. We…

— Andy Andrews

The inevitability of abortion. But I refuse to accept the amoral consequences that are even far worse than that, which is harvesting…

— Greg Gutfeld

Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ... - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally…

— Timothy Keller

I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia.…

— Hayao Miyazaki

It's naive of adults to believe that young people aren't aware of what is going on in the world. The best thing…

— Jason Reynolds

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who…

— Barney Frank

I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like,…

— Carl Andre

Once we make our relationship choices in an adult way, a prospective partner who is unavailable, nonreciprocal, or not open to processing…

— David Richo

The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and…

— David Elkind

One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best…

— Kevin Smith

A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating…

— Joe Meno

First, let's look at the importance of the young adult in the cigarette market. In 1960, this young adult market , the…

— R. J. Reynolds

The intricate and different life cycles of both male and female root-heads, and the great behavioral sophistication shown by the female in…

— Stephen Jay Gould

As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make…

— Brian Williams

If nothing has helped you decide, go ask a child. Children know what they need, and more surprisingly, the know what we…

— Bernie Siegel

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories…

— Neil Gaiman

Every adult needs a child to teach; it’s the way adults learn.

— Frank A. Clark

Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children.

— Juliette Lewis

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children

— Elie Wiesel

It's funny how adults complain about our generation, yet they raised it.

— Anonymous

I tried writing adult romances, but it just didn't fit my voice.

— Simone Elkeles

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

— Salman Rushdie

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

— Bill Plympton

Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.

— Adam Fletcher