Adults Quote by William Landay

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

— Mignon McLaughlin

What we are is our parents' children; what we become is our children's parents.

— Merrit Malloy

“As our kids get older and become adults themselves, there’s a stage we unknowingly pass, from which point forward our role as parents diminishes…

— K.L. Slater

We are all children until our fathers die.

— Melissa Bank

Our parents got to be kids. Now it's our turn.

— Mary-Kate Olsen

We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children.

— Benjamin Spock

One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.

— Sara Shandler

As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.

— Gregory Hines

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

— Dr. Seuss

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

— Robert Smith

I'm sad for adults who want to be children. And children who want to be adults.

— Tim Allen

Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become…

— Michel Houellebecq