Quotes About Adults

How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!

The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.

If government is to respect people's autonomy, or to treat them with dignity, it should not deprive them of freedom. It should treat them as adults, rather than children or infants.

If you want to discover how to make children laugh - and I truly believe all adults should, because children need laughter - the best place to start is with your own childhood.

I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would.

There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults.

I'm not making movies for kids or family audiences.

It just lies behind the slightly more normal things I do do. This sense that most people are crazy, if you look deep enough. Adults particularly, and children have to deal with them.

What matters most is for the school, the district, and the state to be able to say that more students have reached proficiency. This sort of fraud ignores the students' interests while promoting the interests of adults who take credit for nonexistent improvements.

I watched Denise make a mental comparison between her mother's running clothes and the wet bag she'd dumped in the compactor. I could see it in her eyes, a sardonic connection. It was these secondary levels of life, these extrasensory flashes and floating nuances of being, these pockets of rapport forming unexpectedly, that made me believe we were a magic act, adults and children together, sharing unaccountable things.

It was these secondary levels of life, these extrasensory flashes and floating nuances of being, these pockets of rapport forming unexpectedly, that made me believe we were a magic act, adults and children together, sharing unaccountable things.

Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather than adults - and prefer blondes to brunettes! No-one knows why.

Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather than adults

Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather than adults - and prefer blondes to brunettes!

If a baby stork is not happy with the way it is being reared, it sometimes abandons its parents and wanders into another nearby nest to be fed by a new family! Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather than adults

Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone—adults promising us their own failed futures.

Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone —adults promising us their own failed future.

Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.

algo está cambiando: la rebelión de niños y niñas está frente a nuestra mirada y resulta urgente escucharlos, acompañarlos a narrar sus historias de vida y mostrarles que hay millones de personas adultas dispuestas a salvarlos del destino manifiesto del machismo destructor.

This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.

Just think of all the confidence we start out with, all the certainty. And then we embark and we fail, much to our surprise. And then we fail something else, and gradually the surprise dwindles and soon we are surprised by nothing and thus are made adults.

I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake up in the middle of the night and begin to realise, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life.

When a subculture is heading in the wrong direction, it is up to the adults of the larger culture to steer it back in the right direction.

This was the cruelty of adults. Do you understand?