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Adults Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman
- What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and…
- Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
- If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
- I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had…
- I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling…
- It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear…
- If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves 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