No Adults Quotes
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.
We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
When your trying to be an adult in a relationship you seriously don't need to lie or front and try to put on this big picture or pseud like your something that your not.
My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all. But I think people throughout the area were just in a constant state of tension - I mean, adults.
I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months.
So, I'm 34. I'm kind of becoming an adult - kind of, I guess. But I know that I am because, the other day, I said to somebody, 'Dude, dude, don't - those are the good plates.
It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.
The unit of every country is the family and the strength of the country is based on the smiles of the children and songs of the adults.
The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.
As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.
A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.
I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.
I am grateful to be able to participate in the adult citation program where I will complete community service.
The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.
To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.
I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.
Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.
Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.
Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or rewards.
And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the first interview that I had today. Like, I'm just a very emotional human.
Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.
Every liberal initiative, from welfare to antismoking measures, is justified by reference to 'the children.' Yet the clear result of liberal policies is to harm children even more than adults.
The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.
I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.
I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.
Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.
Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.
All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.
I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children.
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.
