Adults Quotes - Page 32

Not everybody loves their children. If that was a fact, all the children would be happy and they would make happy adults. Instead, we have lots of miserable children that later became miserable adults. This is a fact. We cannot change that.

I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.

I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.

I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.

I had so many adults around me reminding me that I was a kid. I also had a lot of adults saying things to me like, "When I was your age..." and sort of idealizing it. I didn't like that they idealized it.

I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted. I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better. I guess I was a philosophical child.

It's easier to see children as mini adults than it is to imagine or to remember what it is to be a child again.

I was such a nerd. It just wasn't something I would have wanted. And I didn't want to act like an adult.

It's a little bit annoying, because it feels like everybody's taking the power away from you. Everybody's taking your adult life away from you. On one level, I used to resent it.

You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human is that you get to set your own boundaries for whatever reasons you like, without appending a sensible rationale to them.

An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth to what their adult life looks like.

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life.

I signed my deal when I was 11, and the success I had, no one could explain that to an adult, what's about to happen to them, much less a kid. There's not many people around who've experienced that.

The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things dont exist than to talk about them.