Adults Quotes · Page 8

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

— Usher

I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

— Dani Shapiro

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

— Mason Cooley

I don't mind if adults stare. They should really know about my physical situation.

— Jessica Long

I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life.

— Susan Jacoby

“We need strong, firm adults in our lives. And that those adults have to be us.”

— Heidi Priebe

Adult dragons are,astute,powerful,and sure of their strength.

— Ciruelo Cabral

One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.

— Wayne Dyer

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of…

— Erma Bombeck

My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult…

— Ewan McGregor

Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.

— Cynthia Voigt

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.

— Margaret Heffernan

Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a…

— Anonymous

“DOSTIE: Let's be honest here. People? Sometimes they suck. But kids, well, they're like a new snowfall, you know?”

— Hillary DePiano

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

— Robert Cormier

I've always been interested in people who aren't from anywhere in particular. I think it's all melting. This has been true for…

— William Gibson

Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with…

— Luigi Ghirri

I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say: OK, now I'm going to do this…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is…

— David Sedaris

“Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork: even when someone is not ill, when there has been no telegram, they run…

— Elizabeth Bowen

We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials…

— Robert Bly

Creativity is one of the most important brain functions in developing youth. It is the ultimate road to invention. I believe it…

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But…

— Rian Johnson

Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake but you’re not supposed…

— Michael Oher

Suffering is our best teacher because it hangs onto us and keeps us in its grip until we have learnt that particular…

— Ayya Khema

I like movies that work on two levels - like The Simpsons, kids can watch it and adults can watch it. Teenagers…

— Eli Roth

Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in…

— Alice Miller

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such…

— Hermann Hesse

It's a little known fact, but parents are like superheroes. With just a few magic words they can make you feel ten…

— Lisa Unger

If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material.…

— Keith Murray

What distinguishes a human being from a computer? The ability to add up numbers? The ability to understand language? The ability to…

— Jonathan Cainer

My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were…

— Sarah Kay

Kids and adults have sex for many, many reasons... Put out a question box.

— Sue Johanson

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.

— Bruce Springsteen

Dare to be the adults we want our children to be.

— Brené Brown

[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

— Judy Blume

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

— Gil Scott-Heron

Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.

— Jacques Barzun

I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.

— Obert Skye

Adult males are what their moms designed them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson