A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas”
“Adults are always like that, They only see what they want to see, As such, I am disapointed in them, but... That's convenient for me. - Fujisawa Ayana”
Source: Fukushuu Kyoushitsu, vol. 2
“Adults are always scared. They hid it in a million ways—caution or confidence, disinterest or anger, a firm hand or a warm embrace or sage advice—but the fear was always there if you knew how to see it.”
Source: The Lies of the Ajungo
“Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults say this to children I look into their faces. They look like someone on the top seat of the Ferris wheel who has had too much cotton candy and barbecue. They'd like to get off and be sick but everyone keeps telling them what a good time they're having.”
Source: At Wit's End
“Adults are bad at remembering how powerful they can be because somewhere along the line, they were shamed for their imagination.”
Source: Imaginary Friend
“Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.”
Source: My Fair Godmother
“Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.”
“Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children.”
“Adults are just children who earn money.”
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
“Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.”
“Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.”
“Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. But the more permanent and influential modes of control are those which operate from moment to moment continuously without such deliberate intention on our part.”
“Adults are not supposed to play. We are supposed to stress, have worries and be too busy dealing with life's problems. But according to a study undertaken by Princeton University and led by Alan Krueger, Professor in Economics and Public Affairs there, we are happiest when we are involved in engaging leisure activities.”
Source: The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
“Adults are only grown-up children, after all.”
Source: Sky Dragons
“Adults are only kids grown up”
“Adults are so dumb.”
Source: The House in the Cerulean Sea
“Adults are the first and foremost teachers of love, peace, truth, tolerance, happiness and spirituality to their children. No school on Earth can ever replace them.”
“Adults are the real monsters.”
“Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day.”
“Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.”
“Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.”
“Adults didn't like maraschino cherries; nobody ate them but me. "Never give Charlotte just one cherry in her Shirley Temple," everybody said. "Make it at least five or six." But I tired of cherries, just cherries.
So after a time, lemon, lime, and orange twists snaked around the brims. Dollops of Chantilly cream floated like water lilies on top of mint leaves in the fizzy pink water. The bartenders dipped sugar swizzles in grenadine overnight so they would look like pink rhinestones, capped cocktail straws with berries they had rolled in honey, and looped lemon peels around the stems of martini glasses. Everyone on the staff called those ones "Bondage Shirley Temples," and then they would wink at one another.”
Source: Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood
“Adults don't believe children. They don't believe old ladies either.”
Source: Beyond the Mountains
“Adults don't get nearly the attention and support the kids do, maybe because they're not as cute or because people forget that autism is lifelong. But it is.”
“Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is my" about your child, without taking into account that you're dealing with a real person with his/her own personality, rights, and autonomy, even when very young.”
“Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.”
“Adults enjoy this book as much as kids! Every person I hear from says they learned something and it was fun.
"I wish I were as smart as Miss Marble!”
Source: Miss Marble's Backyard Critters
“Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.”
“Adults follow paths. Children explore.”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the
same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to
adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the
spaces between fences.”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.”
“Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.”
“Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering”
“Adults genuinely want to make sure that girls know they are more than just sex on legs, but dress codes that disproportionately target girls with developing bodies or for showing skin do exactly that by centering the gazes of the heterosexual boys and men around them.”
Source: Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
“Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.”
“Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.”
Source: Centaur Aisle
“Adults have been brainwashed into thinking that they can't really learn about computers without being taught, so it's more difficult for them to feel comfortable with a computer. Deep down, I think they're afraid of learning about computers.”
“Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.”
Source: Lucky Breaks
“Adults have led education for eons and don't let students have any say. If this is going to work, we need a different approach.
-Blank Check: What Would You Do If You Were Asked to Reinvent Public Schools?”
“Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.”
“Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-”
“Adults have their swords and make their wars. Kids are supposed to...play. We’re not supposed to have cares.” She looked at him, though her eyes were still looking into some distance. “I’m afraid I might be growing up. Why else do I feel like I don’t want to be an adult, but I’m no longer a child?”
Source: Lost
“Adults have this neurotic relationship with death, it gets blown out of all proportion, they make a huge deal out of it when in fact it’s really the most banal thing there is.”
Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Adults hid their pain, their fears, their failure, but adolescents hid their happiness, as if to reveal it would risk its loss.”
Source: Five Tuesdays in Winter
“Adults in a free country should be able to smoke a joint if they want to.”
“Adults keep saying: "We owe it to the young people to give them hope."
But I don't want your hope.
I don't want you to be hopeful.
I want you to panic.
I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.
And then I want you to act.
I want you to act as you would in a crisis.
I want you to act as if our house is on fire.
Because it is.”
Source: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
“Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.”
“Adults love to tell teenagers that “one day” and “sooner or later” plenty of things are going to happen. They love to say that things happen “before you know it,” and they really love to impart how fast time “flies by.”
I would learn later that almost everything my parents told me in this regard turned out to be true. College really did “fly by.” I did change my mind about Keanu Reeves “sooner or later.” I was on the other side of thirty “before I knew it.” And, just as my father said that afternoon, “one day” I was going to need my sister very, very much.”
Source: One True Loves
“Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.”
Source: Joy For Beginners