Adults Quotes - Page 25

I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.” “Pessimistic … pessimistic …” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that violence begets even more violence.

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.

Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.

Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.

An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.

Tact is just lying for adults.

Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them.

Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect.

I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would.

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

I was really poor for most of my adult life.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

The reason they came up with the ratings board is that there are a lot of movies out there, and parents need some guidance. Not only for the kids, but for adults, as well. If you don't like to see a certain kind of film, there should be some rating, so that you know what you're getting into. But the present system doesn't work.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love.