Adults Quotes - Page 30

Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.

I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway.

Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.

Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can. Then, perhaps, you will come back to it when you're older, and you will find the book has changed because you have changed as well, and the book is wiser, or more foolish, because you are wiser or more foolish than you were as a child.

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.

Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.

Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my kids interested in science?" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them.

The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.

Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'

Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.

Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.

What has happened to the adult human?

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position.

For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.