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Quotes About Adults

Rashaquin reproduction. Their entire social order is bult to keep adults well separated, with lots of private space, so they don't accidentally eat one another.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The needs of children of married parents & children of divorced parents are the same. They are the same species. So why are children of divorce considered so resilient? Because the adults need them to be that way.
~ Elizabeth Marquardt
in tragic situations, children often coped better than adults. Possibly, she thought, it was because children's thinking was less complicated and more honest; or perhaps children became mentally adult when the need was thrust upon them.
~ Arthur Hailey
todos los ojos de todos los niños de todas las guerras eran una larga recriminación sin palabras al mundo de los adultos.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.
~ Keith Henson
In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children.
~ Meg Rosoff
Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.
~ Moza bint Nasser
It's awesome, because in live-action, most of my comedies have been rated R, so I'm trying to make adults laugh. While animation is a completely different world where you're trying to make children laugh. So that difference is a blast to do.
~ Christopher Mintz-Plasse
I don't think kids have a problem reading books meant for adults; the problem is on the other side of the fence, a misconception of what one kind of literature is 'supposed' to be, perceived to be, as opposed to another: if it's for kids, it can't be any good; it's got to have been dumbed down and/or sweetened up.
~ Kathe Koja
Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!
~ Dav Pilkey
I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.
~ Joseph Bologna
Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.
~ Maurice Sendak
I was a little ham and was a very open kid, probably because I was around adults all the time. That also forced me to grow up fast, and I learned at an early age about how people lie and deceive each other.
~ Seymour Cassel
For most of us, anger control will be something we must learn as adults, and that means unlearning old habits.
~ Gary Chapman
The best way we can make sure kids will grow up to be considerate adults is to demonstrate love for others while they're still small. — Jim D. Ferguson —
~ Gary Chapman
The goal of politics is to make us children. The more heinous the system the more this is true. The Soviet system worked best when its adults—its men, in particular—were welcomed to stay at the emotional level of not-particularly-advanced teenagers.
~ Gary Shteyngart
We can now suggest an answer to the questions asked above. If conservatism is based on Strict Father morality, conservatives have the general metaphors of the Moral Order in their conceptual systems, with at least a couple of clauses, namely, God above human beings; human beings above animals and the natural world; adults above children; men above women. The Moral Order hierarchy used to have all the bigoted clauses in it; now it has many open slots available for such clauses. Let
~ George Lakoff
Think of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.' It is equally intoxicating for children and adults. All this 'crossover' talk is something publishers are using as a selling device - a kind of post hoc rationalisation of what was happening already.
~ Kevin Crossley-Holland
Paid child care would make child care more efficient, allowing more children to be cared for by fewer adults, and thus free up parents to work more.
~ Michael Shellenberger
Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?
~ Lisa Murkowski
Children are the adults of the next generation, and so our love, education, training, and modeling of all that is valuable in life will indeed shape the history of the next adult generation
~ Sally Clarkson
Children pay attention to the truth their bodies tell them. Adults learn to allow their defense mechanisms to alter the truth . As adults we are alerted to danger by bodily sensations that we need to pay attention to. These could include a flash of fear , sweating, a tight stomach, a pounding heart, the hair standing up on the neck, or a general feeling of discomfort that we may be unable to name.
~ Sandra L. Brown
It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.
~ H. L. Mencken