327 Quotes About Adults

Children are genius in the matters of making life fun and in the matters of making life unbearable, the adults are genius!

I made him walk on a lead and he jumped for joy, the way creatures do, and children do and adults don't do, and spend their lives wondering where the leap went.

Fearlessness. The hack for adults who had lost this quality was to buy cheap things. When there was no pressure to break an expensive object, one then used it, beats it up, and made it theirs. Overly fragile possessions we’re afraid of breaking almost always resulted in never being used. This may apply with people, too.

Generally speaking, children have a healthier, more rewarding attitude to life than adults.

If you're going to be a grown-up,” said Joan, “you've got to start thinking about grown-up things. And number one is money.

Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.

I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?

Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties were done we were give "permission" to read. In other words, our elders positioned reading as a privilege - a much sought-after prize, granted only to those goodhardworkers who earned it. How clever of them.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.