Adults Quotes · Page 41

My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.

— Gail Caldwell

“Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.”

— Kelli Jae Baeli

When I was younger, I always did movies that teenagers would watch, not adults. I did 'Crazy/Beautiful' or comedies like 'Bring It…

— Kirsten Dunst

Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

— Kate Morton

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million…

— Peter Shaffer

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as…

— Tom G. Palmer

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.

— Germaine Greer

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my…

— Carre Otis

If you just casually look at a baby, it doesn't look like there's very much going on there, but they know more…

— Alison Gopnik

...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of…

— Minor White

These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making…

— Greg Mankiw

I, on the other hand, still might not be considered a proper adult. I had been very grown-up in primary school. But…

— Anonymous

I want to be both pathetic and admirable, I want to be at the same time a child and an adult. Thereby…

— Roland Barthes

When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings.…

— Wallace Shawn

There was a real sophistication and elegance to (Batman: The Animated Series). It certainly appealed to kids but had a depth that…

— Jim Lee

“Is this what it’s like for adults? When we were in school, we wanted to do nothing but travel the world and…

— Noah Harris

If you are an adult, you are responsible for your life and well-being. No one owes you the fulfillment of your needs…

— Nathaniel Branden

I've come to learn as an adult that love is a hell of a drug. It's one of the most dangerous things…

— Trevor Noah

So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood,…

— Andrea Dworkin

Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people's unrest-in other words there must be created…

— William O. Douglas

Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot…

— Louise Erdrich

People just like the thrill of anything. Dangerous things and dark things are exciting. Like as a kid, I knew I wasn't…

— Rob Zombie

We lead the world in only 3 categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real,…

— Aaron Sorkin

The two words that I've arrived at to describe what we all need to feel about ourselves, children and adults, in order…

— Jean Liedloff

Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to…

— John Bradshaw

There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly…

— Curtis W. Fentress

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist…

— Rick Riordan

Directing adults is not the same kind of collaboration as you have with a teenager or kid.

— Celine Sciamma

One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today.

— Kenny Chesney

For every little kid who still believes in Santa Claus, there is at least one adult who still believes in professional wrestling.

— Doug Larson

Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most…

— Saint Remigius

Adults say that we're to young to know what love is, but maybe they're to old to remember.

— Nishan Panwar

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

— Henri Nouwen

I think camping is one of those things where if you're forced into it as a child, you'll probably hate it as…

— Jeremy Irvine

It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.

— Henri Michaux

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children…

— Richard K. Morgan

I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness.

— Richard Branson

A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can…

— Adora Svitak

“Children are genius in the matters of making life fun and in the matters of making life unbearable, the adults are genius!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've…

— Kate Morton