Adults Quotes
Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.
Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.
If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all
The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.
One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today.
One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.
Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them.
The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.
I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.
The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.
Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.
Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.
It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.
I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.
Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia.
Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.
The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults
Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.
Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.
There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.
I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.
The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.
With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.
Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.
The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.
I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation.
Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...
We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.
Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all rolled into one.
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.
War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.