Adults Quotes · Page 17

I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

— J. Michael Straczynski

I feel like anything can be worked out; you just gotta talk through it as adults.

— Rose Namajunas

Babies cannot eat meat but some adults like milk.

— J. Vernon McGee

“responses—adults had their own gatherings,”

— Robyn Carr

Adults don't have the opportunity to pretend anymore.

— Vermin Supreme

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

— William Steig

If you want to be treated like adults then start acting like them.

— Michael Cera

When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.

— Rachel Bloom

Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.

— Frederick Lenz

“Popularity does not equal respect. It is not only kids who will do what they think they must to fit in and…

— Susan C. Young

I want to be the kind of adult that keeps learning. I want to always be open to new experiences.

— Joshua Mohr

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

— William Faulkner

I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of…

— Jeff Greenfield

I'm not sure I could ever write for adults. That's not to throw shade or anything, but I feel like teenagers are…

— Angie Thomas

I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but…

— Lana Parrilla

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

— Barbara Kingsolver

I wish I had been less keen to inject my own opinions, but I was a teenager and your teenage self is…

— Emma Forrest

Acting really started for me because I was in a house full of adults. They never shielded their lives from me. They…

— Brian Tyree Henry

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent…

— Clint Eastwood

Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe…

— Walt Disney

I was at the breakfast table this morning and I read in the newspaper that more and more adults are living at…

— Brian Regan

When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for…

— Madeleine L'Engle

A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a…

— Vita Sackville-West

I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this -…

— Lemn Sissay

Kids need to know more than just about unicorns and zombies and vampires. The rhetoric that's coming out is anti-black, anti-Mexico, anti-diversity.…

— Eric Walters

Ten years have passed since a perfect blue sky morning turned into the blackest of nights. Since then we've lived in sunshine…

— Michael Bloomberg

I want to assure you that regardless of your circumstances, age, or sex, you can indeed start over, re-arousing from within yourself…

— Seth Roberts

Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground…

— Peter Gay

I never considered myself part of rock 'n' roll. My stuff was more adult. It was more difficult for teenagers to relate…

— Ray Charles

The one that I really call love is when I feel like everything's okay. That state of, it's all right here. I…

— Daphne Zuniga

When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed…

— June Jordan

I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well…

— James A. Owen

Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him.

— Rick Warren

“Living together alone is hell between consenting adults.”

— Michel Houellebecq

Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

— Mitch Hedberg

She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.

— Neil Gaiman

I've always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.

— Tracee Ellis Ross

Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

— Diane Ackerman

“It was unfortunate the way adults had to repress their true feelings.”

— Liane Moriarty

As children are wishing to be grown up, adults are wishing to be children again.

— Nishan Panwar