Adults Quote by Donna Tartt

Sometimes when you watch children, you feel that they show emotions that you, as an adult, can relate to.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all…

— Greg Boyle

“High-reactive children pay what one psychologist calls “alert attention” to people and things. They literally use more eye movements than others to compare choices…

— Susan Cain

A huge part of what a kid learns when they're growing up is social and emotional development. As adults, we take it for granted…

— Tim Schafer

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive…

— Delia Ephron

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

— Hector Hugh Munro

The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional…

— Sherman Alexie

Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are like finely…

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get…

— Alison Gopnik

Children are different - mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.

— Jean Kerr

Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can’t explain them, and those who haven’t known them…

— Michael Ende

[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to be particularly…

— Fran Lebowitz