Adults Quotes · Page 11

Only an adult with dying dreams can appreciate how awesome it is to have a dog.

— Bill Burr

I watch cartoons the way most adults watch reality-TV shows.

— Ne-Yo

An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?

— Baden Powell de Aquino

All children are curious, I think, but not all adults are.

— Anne Roe

“Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions.”

— Reif Larsen

Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.

— Erica Bauermeister

I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel.

— Alison Lohman

Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.

— Zig Ziglar

It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.

— John Irving

You’re not really an adult at all. You’re just a tall child holding a beer, having a conversation you don’t understand.

— Dylan Moran

Gratitude is really, really attractive. A child who is genuinely grateful makes you want to do anything for her, and that is…

— Dave Ramsey

I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a…

— Miley Cyrus

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have…

— Nat Hentoff

To be adult in relationship is not to be conflict-free, it's to resolve conflicts mindfully.

— David Richo

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children,…

— Diane Ackerman

I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually…

— Marisha Pessl

Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It…

— Sigmund Freud

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take…

— Sarah Dessen

The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact…

— Philip Pullman

“All the adults I knew buried the knowledge beneath lying smiles and hugs. I was still stuck in my own world... Looking…

— Alexandra Bracken

Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together…

— Jeff Bridges

I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became…

— Jesse Eisenberg

Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books,…

— Margaret Mahy

[E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous…

— Emma Donoghue

I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and…

— Haley Joel Osment

I completely reject the idea that working adults need to be treated like infants or worse and not told the realities, harsh…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some…

— Daniel Handler

Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live…

— Lawrence M. Friedman

“Though the children did not know Levin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they did not feel…

— Leo Tolstoy

I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I…

— Lloyd Alexander

What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature.…

— Charles Krauthammer

“And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.”

— Angela Johnson

Adults are just kids who have spent a little more time on this earth.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

— Edward Snowden

Part of life is doing stuff that you don't want to do.

— One Who Does Not Wish To Be Named

Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.

— Margaret Cho

Good jobs look a lot like kids playing and adults working.

— Mike Rowe

“Sex is the playground of adults,” says psychologist Dr. Ari Tuckman”

— Kirsten Miliken

We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.

— Margaret Mead