Adults Quotes - Page 5

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.

Bullying exists because of a lack adult intervention.

I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.

I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.

Children do run from me. And so do some adults.

I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.

As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

It's easier to shape a child than to repair an adult.

With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.

It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me?

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

If you were a freak as a kid, you're an interesting adult.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.