Adults Quotes

Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it.

Sherman Alexie
- World
- Together
- Sentences
A good book written for children can be read by adults

Norton Juster
- Children
- Book
- Written

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

Thomas Sowell
- Children
- Acting
- Shows
You should just sit them down and make them tell you. Make them be adults.

Benjamin Alire Saenz
- Adults
Adults, waiting for tomorrow, move in a present behind which is yesterday or the day before yesterday or at most last week: they don't want to think about the rest. Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.

Elena Ferrante
- Children
- Night
- Week
I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

Robert Wyatt
- Want
- Wanted
- Adults
As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn't matter.

2 Chainz
- Matter
- Said
- Vote
Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny.

Steve Martin
- Kids
- Guy
- Glasses