Adults Quotes

It is the mystery of the unknownThat fascinates us; we are children stillWayward and wistful; with o...

No adult is without problems except a happy imbecile.

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

I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more ...

Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it to...

There was something scary about watching adults sleep. It was as if no one at all were in charge of ...

Though the children did not know Levin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they d...

You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adult...

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanin...

One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door,...

I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adu...

Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them ar...

I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adu...

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more compl...

I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either....

Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths

...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a...

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to gr...

Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child th...

When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But childr...

He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would rela...