Adults Quotes
Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.
They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.
Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.
... the growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part of adults or cure adult offenders.
People forget what a big issue toilet training is for adults and kids, and it is not fun, especially when you're in a car on the interstate.
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas
One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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.
It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.
Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.
I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.
Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children.
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.
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.
Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.
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.
With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.
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.
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.
Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.
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.
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.
In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.
There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.
A new survey says one in three adults will be dressing up for Halloween. As for me, I'm not going to do anything. I'm going as Congress.
You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults.
If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.
Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.
One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.
I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.
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.
If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.
And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.
