Adults Quote by Allan Bloom

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to…

— Viggo Mortensen

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied…

— Keith Johnstone

Some children are wiser than adults.

— Thubten Yeshe

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are…

— Anonymous

Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from…

— Gore Vidal

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

— Nan Fairbrother

Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

— Haruki Murakami

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and…

— Donna Tartt

I sometimes find that my family's emphasis on stories, characters, and art that appeals directly to children rather than over their heads to adults…

— Mike Berenstain

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they…

— Philip Larkin

As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to…

— Alejandro Zambra

Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films,…

— Wallace Shawn