Adults Quotes
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It is not logical that millions of modern adults and children around the world are suddenly becoming insulin resistant
— John M. Poothullil
I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.
— Rocco Buttiglione
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
Never mess with a girl wearing spiked heels.
— Nicki Elson
Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.
— Natalie Jeremijenko
Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
— Stephen King
I'm not surprised that my books appeal to adults.
— Chris Van Allsburg
Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
— Nancy Willard
The more I dealt with adults, the less I wanted to be one.
— Alan Bradley
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
— Bell Hooks
Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.
— Francis Crick
I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
— Warren Spector
When adults read a book, they're two feet away; when children read it, they're right inside it.
— Peggy Rathmann
Then again, the world had ended. So maybe it was time for adults to talk about building castles again.
— Nick Cole
The best thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent.
— Rosecrans Baldwin
If children instead of adults would have contolled the world, then the world would have become a better place.
— Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury
Faith was a power that arose from inside you, I thought, and doubt was exogenous, a speck in your eye. A black mote from the sad world of adults.
— Karen Russell
I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.
— Bernie Sanders
Meaningful progress toward social justice cannot be made in sclerotic education systems that put adults' job security before children's civil rights.
— Arthur C. Brooks
Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.
Good things come to those who wait. — Jess C. Scott
Good things come to those who wait. — Jess C. Scott
Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that's something we should continue doing.
— Ashley Ormon
As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.
— Daniel Goleman
Bullying exists because of a lack adult intervention.
— Stuart Green
To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?
— Bill Crawford
Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.
— Jamie Farr
And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.
— Angela Johnson
Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-
— Christian Smith
An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.
— Henry Rollins
Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
— Marian Wright Edelman
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
— Beverly Cleary
You are such a kind and caring man, and so sizzling hot and studly. Please, please don't go nutty on me.
— Nicki Elson
There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.
— Pierre Trudeau
Angels do not whisper in our ears. Predestination is a fairy tale, a bedtime story for adults scared of meaningless death.
— Paul Doiron
To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.
— Amy Winehouse
Adults appreciate the flavor of wine, its nuances and such. And we have major problems and stress.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
— Evelyn Waugh
It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.
— Darren Shan
And that's what's wrong with the world.." "Man, woman, straight, gay. There's nothing wrong with wanting someone. We're all adults.
— Lindsey Kelk
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.
— Henri Nouwen
Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think.
— Carrie Coon
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
— Maurice Sendak
Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously.
— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.
— Adora Svitak
I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.
— Rick Derringer
The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults.
— Brian Sutton-Smith
The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.
— Ned Vizzini
C. diff can sometimes be life-threatening, even in healthy young adults.
— J. Thomas LaMont
A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult.
— Charles Spurgeon
Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?
— Ingrid Law
If you were a freak as a kid, you're an interesting adult.
— John Fugelsang
Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies? I
— Neil Gaiman
There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'
— Ice Cube
Kids expected adults to show up in this part of their world. Because they were comfortable with us, introductions to their friends seemed natural.
— Mark H. Senter III
I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.
— Jill Soloway
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Gryffindor is the courageous one right? I mean, I'm here because I have the balls to tell adults when they're douche bags, so yeah, Gryffindor.
— Trish Cook, Brendan Halpin
If you want someone to tell you what to think ... "
"You will never be short of people willing to do so. — Frances Hardinge
"You will never be short of people willing to do so. — Frances Hardinge
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
— Murray Banks
I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.
— R.L. Stine
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
— John Irving
You can't raise a happy, more resilient kid if you're not a happy, more resilient adult.
— Tony Robbins
All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.
— John Grant
It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.
— Jacob K. Javits
We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.
— Gary Webb
That's the ideal meeting ... once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.
— Helen Oyeyemi
One person put it this way, 'If you want to get to know a Millennial, share a meal.' In other words, get to know them at an individual level.
— David Kinnaman
I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
— John Lasseter
Cheese. The adult form of milk.
— Richard Condon
The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.
— Nelson Rodrigues
As children, we were afraid of the dark. Now as adults, we are afraid of the light. We are afraid to step out. We are afraid to become more.
— Andy Andrews
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.
— Eugene Ionesco
To me, still being considered a kid, it can't be too much to ask. We should have the same rights as adults did when they were young.
— Richard Louv
A child sees possibilities; an adult sees through the windows of harsh past realities.
— Debasish Mridha
The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.
— Fran Lebowitz
Adults are taught not to believe anything unless it is boring or ugly.
— Katherine Rundell
Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Children become adults who become children again.
— Kristin Hannah