Adults Quote by Muriel Barbery

“And yet there’s nothing to understand. The problem is that children believe what adults say and, once they’re adults themselves, they exact their revenge…

— Muriel Barbery

It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much.…

— Anonymous

As you grow older you get to a point that you've heard so many lies, that the truth doesn't even seem real anymore...

— WZDM

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

— Mortimer Adler

When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things,…

— Anonymous

I'm 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will…

— Harlan Coben

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

— Keith Richards

As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened that we…

— Oswald Chambers

When we are young we believe to be adults; when we are adults we believe to be young.

— Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.

— Sara Shandler

When you grow up, people don't speak the truth. You can see, when you trust people, you help them.

— Miguel Cabrera

As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are…

— Kenneth Grahame