Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Fey

...nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.

Tina Fey

I was wearing my best Gap turtleneck and my dates were two adult lesbians, so yea, I was pretty cool.

Tony Evans

It's easier to shape a child than to repair an adult.

Phil Collins

When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money.

Peter Jennings

I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.

Pete Hamill

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

Pierre Trudeau

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.

Philip Pullman

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

Philip Pullman

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.

Philip Pullman

The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.

Rachel Cusk

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

Kenneth Branagh

Adults are just children who earn money.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adult males are what their moms designed them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things dont exist than to talk about them.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

Laura Benanti

I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.

Temple Grandin

I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.

Randi Weingarten

Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

Shelley Berkley

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.

Shaquille O'Neal

Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.

Seymour Papert

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.

Lee Kuan Yew

Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts.

Lawrence Durrell

The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.

Laura Schlessinger

A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself.

Laura Prepon

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

Shigeru Miyamoto

An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.

Tony Robbins

You can't raise a happy, more resilient kid if you're not a happy, more resilient adult.

Simon Pegg

When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within reason.

Rick Riordan

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?

Richard Branson

I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness.

Tim O'Brien

Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love and maybe more, because there were not yet words for it, and because it was not yet fixed to comparisons or chronologies or the ways by which adults measure such things...I just loved her. Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones -- that kind of love.