Adults Quotes
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The media nowadays has given the message to adults. Don't try new things, don't look foolish because we will catch you and then broadcast it to the world. I think children don't have that.
Jamie Lee Curtis -
As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.
Lewis H. Lapham
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I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema!
Tilda Swinton -
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
Lala Lajpat Rai -
What is a child?" he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves.
Celia S. Friedman -
Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.
Walt Disney -
When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say that their choices deserve recognition.
Emily Yoffe -
Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.
Brian Tracy
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The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
Young adults love to play games and they're thirsty for social interaction, but a lot of bar and restaurant experiences are quite unsatisfactory on the social level. What young people need is a place that has the feel of an unhosted party where they find themselves interacting with like-minded strangers.
Nolan Bushnell -
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
Abraham Lincoln -
The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons
Rabindranath Tagore -
We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.
R. S. Thomas -
Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.
Anderson Cooper
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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.
Kristen Stewart -
I feel grown-up. I am no longer in the category with the children, I am one of the adults! And I love it! They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!
Beatrice Sparks -
I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.
Jim Gaffigan -
I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.
Quentin S. Crisp -
You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.
Kristen Stewart -
I am an adult, but a damaged one.
S. J. Watson
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You can't raise a happy, more resilient kid if you're not a happy, more resilient adult.
Anthony Robbins -
The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me.
Joanne Rowling -
Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.
E. B. White -
If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.
R. J. Reynolds