Adults Quote by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

— Eric Hoffer

When given age-appropriate challenges, children tend to take them very seriously; in fact, the more obvious the risk is, the more cautiously a child…

— Darell Hammond

Some children are wiser than adults.

— Thubten Yeshe

We all are so serious when we are younger.

— Joe Penny

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

— Anonymous

I'm hoping my kids take life seriously, but don't take themselves too seriously.

— Steve Doocy

When you take things too seriously, you get old. You have to be silly. Whenever people say, 'Hey, man, are you ever going to…

— Ricky Martin

Age is too non-serious a thing to be taken seriously.

— Tasneem Hameed

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

— Doris Lessing

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.

— Amy Winehouse

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

— Alfie Kohn