Adults Quotes · Page 16

A child can be very happy with very simple things; adult must do the same!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life.

— LeAnn Rimes

Separation is where you see if it works better with the adults in two different homes.

— Carolyn Hax

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

— Kelley Armstrong

Kids know nothing about racism. They're taught that by adults.

— Ruby Bridges

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

— Jennie Garth

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

— Obert Skye

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

— Chris Hardwick

It's very different working with all adults. I have a swear jar so that, if they have a potty mouth, I make…

— Joey King

One of my favorite things about 'Spring Awakening' is that it is enjoyable and important for both kids and adults to see.

— Lea Michele

Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

— Nancy Werlin

The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do…

— Helen Clark MacInnes

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly…

— Sherman Alexie

In general, Dutch children are taught not to depend too much on adults; adults are taught to allow children to solve their…

— Michelle Buteau

Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

— Paul A. Offit

I just don't understand, if they see numbers [of CEO salaries]that represent people, how they can somehow skirt around that and morally…

— Eddie Vedder

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the…

— Herbert Read

The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a…

— Jaron Lanier

Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you…

— D. T. Max

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction;…

— Sigmund Freud

When I was a kid I would write songs, little plays, and poetry in school. If you're an adult and you're a…

— Mike Birbiglia

Even though probably the majority of homosexuals are not oriented towards young people, there is a significant number that are, especially the…

— Scott Lively

More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity…

— Morgan Spurlock

Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or…

— Patrick Rothfuss

While you were four, you didn't know anything other than being terrified and scared; you're not four any longer. Now [as an…

— Wayne Dyer

Girls have long been evaluated on the basis of appearance and caught in myriad double binds: achieve, but not too much, be…

— Mary Pipher

Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious…

— Anonymous

We need the stars... We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of…

— Octavia Butler

Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love…

— Tim O'Brien

At that time in my life I implicitly understood something that adults seem to have forgotton: that we do have control over…

— Lorraine Moller

Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning…

— Russell L. Ackoff

Adult males are what their moms designed them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

— Camilla Belle

From adult diapers to bedpans? Move over, Elvis, I’m the afterlife of the party!

— Rachel Vincent

A good book written for children can be read by adults

— Norton Juster

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

— Abraham Lincoln

I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted.

— Mara Wilson

Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults.

— Harvey Kurtzman

I'm still trying to be a kid. I really don't want to feel like an adult.

— Gilbert Arenas