Best Adults Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.”

People Thinking Knows Writing Kind Book Voice Comedy Adults Intelligent Like Me Editors Happy Endings Quirky

Author:Elinor Lipman

“I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.”

Kind Whole Adults Anarchist

Author:Mark Leyner

“Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.”

Kids Pay Too Much Adults Wholesale

Author:Richard Louv

“Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.”

Kids Adults Contact

Author:Richard Louv

“A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.”

People Thinking Needs Giving Giving Up Adults Careful Be Careful

Author:Richard Louv

“If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.”

Ifs Way War Matter Kids Talking Minutes Emotional Needed Shapes Adults Contact Life And Death One Minute Handy Emotional Life Way Of Talking

Author:Richard Louv

“At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.”

Children Stills Young Stage Involved Adults Young Adult My Children Grandchildren My Grandchildren

Author:Margaret Mahy

“I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.”

Thinking Feels Writing Wells Children Stories Age Young Groups Adults Young Adult Small Child

Author:Margaret Mahy

“I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.”

Shows Artist Guy Watches Four Adults Likes Seconds Scare Creepy

Author:Todd McFarlane

“A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.”

Trying Years Kind Children Feelings Might Kids Age Actors Grows Growing Up Adults Hanging Out Presentation Poise Child Actors

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months.”

Past Young Growing Stage Months Adults Shoes Young Adult Manuals

Author:Graham Nelson

“I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.”

Children Animal Adults Ease Children Love

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.”

Young Novel Adults Young Adult

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.”

Important Age Choices Actors Roles Adults Important Things Available Wide

Author:Haley Joel Osment

“As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.”

Thinking I Can Kids Turns Adults Temper Fierce Unforgiving

Author:Will Oldham

“Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O”

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“It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.”

Ifs Knows Children Reason Facts Natural Wonder Too Much Higher Adults Logic Bravery Rate Cancer Cures Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Cynical Fearful Ontology Resigned

Author:Lance Armstrong

“There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.”

Knows Kids Grows Parent Growing Up Generations Adults

Author:Richard Louv

“I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.”

Television Tvs Adults Music Love I Love Music

Author:Donna Leon

“Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.”

Knows Serious Adults Paid Bills Killers Indebtedness

Author:Frank Lautenberg

“I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!”

Feels Years Believe Stills Sometimes Hard Kids Mom Adults Hard To Believe

Author:Ana Ortiz

“Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.”

People Ifs Knows Years Children Whole Film Actors Felt Adults Whole Life Manage Transition Film Set Child Actors

Author:Anna Popplewell

“If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.”

Ifs Two Play Parent Fire Adults Standing

Author:Cat Power

“My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.”

Giving Children Lasts Ability Skills Adults Aim My Children Learners Homeschooling

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.”

Ifs Thinking Film Parent Walks Effects Wind Huge Adults Eight Dinner Brilliant Kurosawa

Author:Ann Patchett

“I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.”

Knows Facts Care Fighting Office Adults Tough Lifetime Know Me I Care Tenure

Author:Bev Perdue

“Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.”

Thinking Car Havens Adults Divorce Locked Payment Time To Think Car Payments

Author:Gary Paulsen

“Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult.”

People Sometimes Reason Political Choices Born Religious Economic Pure Adults

Author:Jacques Pepin

“I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.”

Thinking Children Important Voice Community Members Adults Lgbt Family And Friends Family Members

Author:Lana Parrilla

“Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.”

Wells Children Differences Normal Adults Libertarian Insane Retarded Retard Mentally Retarded

Book:Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

Source: Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

“This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.”

Thinking Children Happens Young Parent Sides Groups Adults Our Children Young Adult Your Children Mentor

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“I like getting to be in the adult world a little bit and then getting to be in the mom world and cook dinners. And, for me, that balance is what makes it nice.”

World Littles Bits Nice Mom Balance Little Bit Adults Dinner Cooks

Author:Keri Russell

“In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.”

Persons School Faces Middle Worst Adults Bigger Damn Destructive Insecure Middle School Worst Times Slapping Bigger Person

Author:Nikki Reed

“The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.”

Way Humans Made Facts Belief Religious Common Emotion Ordinary Adults Human Experience Religious Belief Common Ground

Book:Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

Source: Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

“To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.”

Has Beens Stories Able Wanted Growing Up Growing Depends Adults Ancestor Storyteller Great Gifts

Author:Leslie Marmon Silko

“You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.”

Should Able Adults

Author:Gil Scott-Heron

“A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.”

Writing Kids Speak Adults Upset Bores

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified. They are like hard clay and we push them on each side of the child's attention field.”

Children Hard Sides Attention Teaching Awareness Fields Buddhism Adults Clay

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.”

Thinking Needs Writing Ends Kids Adults Preaching

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.”

Years Play Bigs Kids School Young Four Feet Periods Six High School Adults Yeah Lawyer

Author:Jason Segel

“Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That's part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you're afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect.”

Ifs Way Feels Should Reason Kids Remember Adults Appreciate Doctors And Love Controlled Doctor Who Being Afraid

Author:Matt Smith

“It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.”

People Writing Trying Children Book Hard Three Four Adults Accepted Exception

Author:R. L. Stine

“I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'”

Adults Tunes Looney Tunes Spongebob Squarepants

Author:R. L. Stine

“I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.”

Years Book Young Written Havens Six Adults Young Adult Goosebumps

Author:R. L. Stine

“Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.”

Writing Littles Persons Adults Teenager

Author:Zoe Saldana

“Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.”

Thinking Different Sometimes Young Choices Stuff Path Our Lives Late Adults Young Adult Luxurious Different Paths

Author:Rachael Taylor

“I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.”

Want Mean Children Watches Protect Adults Programming Mature Protecting Children

Author:Burt Ward

“As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.”

Thinking World Children Past Worry Concepts Adults Our Time Engaging Submerged Worrying About The Past

Author:Chris Ware

“I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.”

Stills Ideas Film Steps Adults Get Over Superhero Respectable New Yorkers

Author:Chris Ware

“I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long as I was working constantly, that was fine, because, although I don't have any children, I do relate better to them than adults.”

Children Long Has Beens Done Fine Adults Relate

Author:Jack Wild

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