Adults Quotes - Page 15

We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee—but there are no instant adults.

Kids love watching adults act like children. It's that spirit they can relate to.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.

At times like this, adults need a drink

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore.

We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.

Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron.

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

Liquor is such a nice substitute for facing adult life.

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

At sixteen I was like: "I need to get an album out now!" - even though I was only sixteen. I was always in a little bit of a rush to be an adult.