Adults Quotes - Page 3

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.

In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.

Children ought not to be victims of the choices adults make for them.

Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care.

Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers!

There was nothing unusual about my victory. The entire story was back in eighth place. There is simply no way to imagine how good Jim Ryun is or how far he will go after he becomes an adult. What he did was more significant than Roger Bannister's first mile under 4 minutes.

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.

In adults, dependability is the fruit of maturity; in a child, it is the seed.

Do we as adults have the right to make decisions about what we put in our own bodies and what we experience with our own consciousness without reference to the powers of the state, or must we seek permission from the state in order to explore our own consciousness?

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.

One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.

I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.

If you are an adult, you are responsible for your life and well-being. No one owes you the fulfillment of your needs or wants; no one is here on earth to serve you. If you respect the principle of self-ownership, you understand that no one else owns you and that you do not own anyone else. Only on this understanding can there be peace on earth and good will among human beings.

Adults are only obsolete children.

The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.

The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.

I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.

The adults were completely wrong.