Adults Quotes - Page 21

Every liberal initiative, from welfare to antismoking measures, is justified by reference to 'the children.' Yet the clear result of liberal policies is to harm children even more than adults.

Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors of the adult world. They know very early on that the world is sometimes a very dark, difficult and complex place, and the literature they read must reflect that. Otherwise we're just entertaining them to pass the time.

And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the first interview that I had today. Like, I'm just a very emotional human.

When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult.

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.

I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.

I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from other adults.

I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted.

It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy?

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

But despite these differences, so many of our faiths and traditions are rooted in the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would want done to you. Isn't allowing adults to marry the person they love consistent with the Golden Rule?

A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children.

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.