Quotes About Adults

Children lack empathy about how the adults around them feel. Children have a tendency toward self-involvement which makes them give too much weight to trivia, too little weight to significant things. If the house burns down, the charred sister and the charred kitten are equally mourned.

It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.

It often happens with grown-ups that their tears are misunderstood. (Who can know which time in their lives they are reliving?)

Grown-ups shouldn't finish books they're not enjoying.

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.

Young children see the innocence of life, while some adults live in innocence.

I think you overestimate the maturity of adults, he wrote me in his final letter, a letter he sent only after I'd broken down and written him first, after a year of silence.

I wanted to give you advice. Adults are always doing that; it's one of their occupational hazards.

Tout le monde se fiche des "presque", Dante. Si les " presque" comptaient, toute la population adulte, hormis peut-être une ou deux bonnes sœurs, serait en prison.

Children don't write their own tragedies. That is the work of adults.

children don't write their own tragedies that's the work of adults.

It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me?

The prevention and treatment of unhealthy sleep habits in infants and young children is important, because if those habits are uncorrected, they will persist. There is no automatic correction. Children do not simply outgrow these problems. Adult sleep specialists commonly see incurable adult insomniacs, chronically disabled from sleepiness and dependent on sleeping pills, who correctly describe themselves as never sleeping well as children.

Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults.

Geography! That's something they teach in the third grade! I never heard of a grownup studying geography.

My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.

My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all. But I think people throughout the area were just in a constant state of tension - I mean, adults.

La gente grande no se acuerda ya de lo mucho que cuesta estudiar. Creen que uno no tiene nada en la cabeza... Y hay que ver lo difícil que es poner atención y no pensar en otra cosa. Porque hay tanto en qué pensar.

It's so easy for a child to feel all wrong in the eyes of adults. And when you have no idea that what you were doing is wrong… I hated being caught unawares. It was so dangerous, so shameful not to know what I needed to know.

Adults want to talk about death way less than people my age do. Death is the Santa Claus of the adult world. Except Santa Claus in reverse. The guy who takes all the presents away. Big bag over the shoulder, climbing up the chimney carrying everything in a person's life, and taking off, eight-reindeered, from the roof.

Why can't relationships come with an instruction manual for unsophisticated adults like me?

Even though they're adults, they're still my babes, and I still worry and fret over all of them.