Adults Quote by Eric Hoffer

Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously.

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The young never take anything seriously if it sounds simple.

— Rae Foley

My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had…

— John Hughes

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

Young people are so often dissed by the media.

— Hugh Bonneville

The lives of the young are so tumultuous.

— Amitava Kumar

The young are just as opinionated as the old, but have more exciting things to do than sit around airing their opinions all day.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Steve Doocy

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

— Oscar Wilde

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have…

— Anne Rice

It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults…

— H. L. Mencken