Adults Quotes - Page 20

Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe

Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.

A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away.

In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.

You can't raise a happy, more resilient kid if you're not a happy, more resilient adult.

Only idiots and infants need things. The language of needs is the native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts and is addressed to needy dependents. The language of wants is spoken by self-respecting adults and is addressed to other self-respecting adults.

Kids and adults have sex for many, many reasons... Put out a question box.

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within reason.

Even if you're an adult you still have secrets and scandals following you.

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

The best thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent.

Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex.

Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret.

I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.

I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties, when there were not that many authors in whom I could recognize myself, he was an important guide and mentor to me as he was to many others. He helped me understand who I was and decipher the world around me. He gave me the words to defend myself and the argumentative rhetoric to master discussions with others.

We don’t really care about test scores. We care about adult outcomes.

When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.

The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.

I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldnt do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, Wow, they never told me no!

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.