Quotes About Adults

Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

The grown-ups, or maybe I should say the parents, ate in the dining room.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right.

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

it's not children who extinguish the flame of desire—it's the adults who fail to keep the spark alive.

Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emotional burden they carry from childhood or indeed have their full potential realised.

The current vogue in child development is to focus on noncognitive skills: self-regulation, grit, and the ability to process stress. Loving attention from adults is essential to the development of these traits.

what children really need to grow and develop is unhurried time with caring adults

Children under the age of 16, 17, or even 18 are generally not psychologically or emotionally mature enough to consent fully to sexual relationships with adults, or to participate in them on an equal footing.

The fear of man is no respecter of persons. It might be called codependency by adults, peer pressure with teens, and shyness with children, but whatever it is called, it all betrays the same idolatrous heart.

Adults . . . they're like this messy tangle of anger and phobias and sadness . . . hopelessness.

Was there? Was it true? Or was it just grown-ups making you scared with their own fears?

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

You know, it is a funny thing, but 'The Flintstones' was bought by ABC and the sponsors when they discovered adults were watching and enjoying 'Huck Hound' and 'Quick Draw McGraw.'

I think so much of kids' television, kids' entertainment, is done by adults from a looking-back point of view. If we come up with a really great joke that will make me laugh hard and would make my friends laugh, we pitch it aside.

'Game Never Ending' came out of an earlier game called 'NeoPets,' a children's game that adults also played. It was a series of mini-games where you accrue points and can acquire objects - houses and all kinds of stuff.