Adults Quote by Sloane Crosley

“When a child starts doing what’s right even though they don’t want to, that’s when he or she becomes an adult.”

— Ryan Winfield

“Being an adult isn't an excuse to do whatever you want. Being an adult is the duty of having no one else to blame…

— Keri Sparks

“Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life.”

— Kathy Mckeon

“And whenever you want to do something and you’re not an adult, people tell you to stop. Even when there’s no real reason.”

— Ally Condie

“When adults misbehave, I reasoned, they forfeit the right to tell children what to do.”

— Shulem Deen

“Sometimes parents needed to be protected.”

— Stephen King

“If you forbid [children] from doing what is natural , they will seek it out later in ways that are unnatural and perverse.”

— Debra Ollivier

“But there is something that’s a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That’s what it means to become…

— William Deresiewicz

“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

“It is the duty of a child to obey his parent.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Society depends on parents to instill in their children a healthy sense of self-restriction, and that is not as hard as some people make…

— Gary Ezzo

“When you're a kid, you don't get to do anything. When you're a grown-up, you don't want to do anything.”

— Tony Taylor