No Adults Quotes

I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.

Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect.

Dare to be the adults we want our children to be.

Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them.

The foundation of adult trust is not “You will never hurt me.” It is “I trust myself with whatever you do.

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.

When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.

Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.

There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.

Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.

Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.

It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.

The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.

Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.

As children, our protests availed little. As adults, the same.

I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.

Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.

I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.

Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it became inflamed for no reason.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.

When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.

I wish for myself as an adult that I cared less what people thought of me, especially people who don't know me.

Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.

It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed.

The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

...nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.

Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.

Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.

Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.

The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.

I think it would be great if more adults were able to maintain that joyful creativity that we all experience as children.

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.