327 Quotes About Adults

Like Whitney Houston, we believe the children are the future. But adults are in charge of the present, and we should start acting like it.

If you feel like crying you shouldn't hold back your tears. You should let it all out while you still can...because when you get bigger, sometimes can't cry even if you have something to cry about.

She's going to be okay, Pav. You need to just let the adults take care of it.'Adults have caused all the problems I've ever had.

It did not matter, at that moment, that she was every monster, every witch, every nightmare made flesh. She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.

Adults, I understand, have many faults, they are not perfect—even though they have lived longer, even though they offer themselves as examples to children. They are larger, that is certain, and size has an unearned authority. But they are easily influenced, and they can be easily swayed.

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside -- walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It's the saddest thing I know.

We are always told that anyone over the age of eighteen should know what they are doing. The fact is, they don't.

In fact, as long as the adults in your life are actually not hurting you, you kind of have to accept that they are very unlikely to change. ... Accept them and, if you can, try to help them. ... you could see a really surprising human side of them.

As a child, adults envy our creativity. As adults we are driven to envy our children.