Adults Quote by Benjamin Alire Sáenz Download Open image ““The problem with parents is that they're adults.”” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adults Parenting Parents
“Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were… — Quetzal Copy Share Image
“You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Being an adult isn't a matter of age. It's a matter of responsibility.” — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
“Aren’t parents ever right? They either do too goddamned much or too goddamned little, but they’re never right, at least not as far as… — J.A. Jance Copy Share Image
“Children understand...things far better. Adults always make things so complicated.” — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“Becoming an adult is all about accepting that you didn't know anything when you were a kid.” — Andrew Sturm Copy Share Image
“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.” — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.” — Karen White Copy Share Image
“You should just sit them down and make them tell you. Make them be adults." "You can't make anyone be an adult. Especially an… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about parents. They ask what you think, but they don't really care, or at least they don't care enough to let… — Peter Monn Copy Share Image
“Breakfast seemed to be a good time for throwing your emotions around. Jodie said that at this place emotions were like Frisbees – people… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry?… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
“See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there were no roads - just underground tunnels.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“That was the first time I did coke. My body, it was electric. For the first time in my life I felt as if… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Did the thought ever occur to you that I might care about you? People are allowed to care about each other." "You don't know… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Words exist only in theory. And then one ordinary day you run into a word that exists only in theory. And you meet it… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“I don't like remembering. Remembering makes me feel things. I don't like to feel things. I'm thinking I could spend the rest of my… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
“In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon moving towards me. I wait… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is,… — K. Anders Ericsson Copy Share Image
Part of life is doing stuff that you don't want to do. — One Who Does Not Wish To Be Named Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image