Adults Quotes · Page 22

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

— Walt Disney

Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.

— Fran Lebowitz

I'm fascinated in the children within adults.

— Jason Gann

I have a lot more things to talk about now because I'm an adult.

— Emo Philips

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

— Nigella Lawson

Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.

— Fran Lebowitz

A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The best things in life don't come in adult sizes.

— Matt Bird

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

— Philip Pullman

Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-

— Christian Smith

Puppies and kids naturally go together, but it's up to the adults to teach them how to do it the right way.

— Cesar Millan

I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.

— John Lasseter

Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such…

— Richard Dreyfuss

Adults don't get nearly the attention and support the kids do, maybe because they're not as cute or because people forget that…

— John Donvan

Children ask questions much more than adults do, and you have to wonder if this is something we have that we lose.

— Mark Kurlansky

Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having…

— Roger Ebert

I think a part of it was the way my parents raised me. I think that's part of being raised in a…

— Becky G

Every kid thinks they have something special about themselves. Every adult thinks they have a big idea at some point in their…

— Mark Cuban

I grew up in an era when strange adults would grab me on the street and say: 'Don't do that.' You never…

— Emo Philips

Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don't the adult around here just say something? Say it so they know…

— Claudette Colvin

The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy…

— Pete Docter

Then I'm going?" Kendra asked. The adults in the room exchanged tacit glances before nodding. Then we only have one more problem…

— Brandon Mull

In the area we live, there's a large show of children who run from one house to another house to another house.…

— Helen McCrory

What I'm interested in is the protection of children from violence, and they are exposed to violence every single day in the…

— Sinead O'Connor

I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some…

— Audrey Tautou

And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe.…

— Scott Westerfeld

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs…

— Neil Gaiman

It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I…

— Kate DiCamillo

The adult must seem to mislead the child, and the Master the dog. They misread the signs. Their ignorance and their wishes…

— Sheldon Vanauken

When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and…

— Confucius

Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision…

— Chris Hadfield

I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct…

— Neil Armstrong

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

— Isaiah Berlin

I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.

— Jim Gaffigan

The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.

— Nelson Rodrigues

I hate being around a bunch of drunk ass adults.

— Anonymous

I very much like "Canada, the adults are talking" stance.

— Tucker Carlson

If you don't mind, the adults are trying to have a conversation here.

— Triple H

“The problem with parents is that they're adults.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

— Arundhati Roy