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Adults Quotes by John Green
- I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender…
- When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need…
- Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You…
- The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that…
- I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than…
- I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.
- I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there…
- I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I…
- She did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to…
- Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and…
More Adults Quotes
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working,… — Drew Barrymore
- I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to… — Roseanne Barr
- When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it,… — Drew Barrymore
- If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me… — Mario Batali
- There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. — Jean Baudrillard
- What is an adult? A child blown up by age. — Simone de Beauvoir
- The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times. — Martha Beck
- Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. — Martha Beck
- Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children… — Martha Beck
- An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. — Pope Benedict XVI