Teen Quote by Jonathan L. Howard

“could remember what it was like to be four, thinking that the adults were in control. When you became an adult yourself, it became…

— Anni Taylor

“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.”

— John Boyne

“We need strong, firm adults in our lives. And that those adults have to be us.”

— Heidi Priebe

“How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world.”

— Erica Jong

“I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.”

— Karen White

“Deep inside, we’re all just playing at being adults. Because we’ll never be better than the people we were at six, or worse than…

— Emily Hemmer

“Adults can talk all they want about youth feeling invincible.”

— David Levithan

“They were like adolescents, desperately afraid of surrendering the very attitudes they were trying to kill off.”

— Susan J. Navarette

“Adults: they were so unpredictable that nothing they did should have been able to surprise me anymore.”

— Helen Grant

“You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Adults never explained anything. They saw children as akin to small animals, creatures who had to be tugged and beaten into adulthood before they…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Perhaps I lost sight of my dreams when I became an adult and resigned myself to acting the way adults were supposed to act.”

— Robin Sharma