Adults Quotes · Page 4

Adults are obsolete children.

— Dr. Seuss

Tact is just lying for adults.

— Cassandra Clare

Adults under threat feel like children.

— Martha Beck

If children could, if adults knew.

— Sigmund Freud

“Adults follow paths. Children explore.”

— Neil Gaiman

Adults are only kids grown up

— Anonymous

Me in my adult days :)

— Anonymous

I don't need adult supervision.

— Pat Paulsen

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

— Sheena Easton

Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children.

— Richard Armitage

“As children, we played hide and seek with one another, as adults with ourselves.”

— Yahia Lababidi

I had a boyfriend for a long time, and I've never really been single as an adult.

— Erin Heatherton

Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time.

— Robert T. Bakker

The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.

— Tim Walberg

I'm sad for adults who want to be children. And children who want to be adults.

— Tim Allen

Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

— Paul McCartney

The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided…

— Paul Goodman

I am grateful to be able to participate in the adult citation program where I will complete community service.

— Jameis Winston

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

— Evelyn Waugh

It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that…

— Richard Simmons

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it…

— Elias Canetti

The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make…

— Richard Dawkins

[Hillary Clinton] telling the enemy everything you want to do. No wonder you've been fighting - no wonder you've been fighting ISIS…

— Donald Trump

Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to…

— Kate Middleton

For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by…

— Orson Scott Card

Springsteen on that record started writing less about having your wind in your hair and turning the radio up and more about…

— Craig Finn

Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or…

— Henning Mankell

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can,…

— David Foster Wallace

Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I…

— Rick Riordan

Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult…

— Robin Williams

There was nothing unusual about my victory. The entire story was back in eighth place. There is simply no way to imagine…

— Dyrol Burleson

My interests lie in nurturing children. That's part of the reason why the bullying thing has become an aspect of my life.…

— Tyler Blackburn

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

So when it came to making the movie I guess I had a really good sense innately of what it was that…

— Michael Dougherty

Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought…

— Conrad Hyers