No Adults Quotes

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

My comedy is for adults, but you can have your kids listen to it. They won't get all the jokes because hopefully I'm more cerebral than a 10-year-old... but if you ask my wife, I'm not!

Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

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.

I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children.

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

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.

I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

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.

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.

Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult.

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.

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.

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.

Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.

The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.

I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldnt do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, Wow, they never told me no!

We don’t really care about test scores. We care about adult outcomes.

I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.

Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret.

The best thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent.

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

Even if you're an adult you still have secrets and scandals following you.

When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within reason.

Some children are wiser than adults.

In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.

TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.

You can't raise a happy, more resilient kid if you're not a happy, more resilient adult.

I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.

I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.

In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

I like to think of myself less like 'an adult' and more like a 'former fetus.'

Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often people get offended by it.

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult