Top 1200 Older Adults Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.

I was under the impression that if you've read one vampire series for young adults, you've read them all.

I know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny.

They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.

We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.

I wasn't bullied by the mean girls in high school. I'm just bullied by adults and teenagers all over the world.

Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.

Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.

While the Internet generally tends to have a stress-relieving function for adults - as long as they aren't inclined toward sex addiction - I don't see this being the case for adolescents.

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

I know how messy things can get when adults overstep their boundaries and insert themselves - their politics, their fears, their prejudices, their ignorance - into the lives of young people.

There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults.

Understand: as children and young adults, we are taught to conform to certain codes of behavior and ways of doing things. We learn that being different comes with a social price.

Playing Batman is an actor's challenge. First, it's different; then, you have to reach a multi-level audience. The kids take it straight, but for adults, we have to project it further.

If liberals no longer pride themselves on being the adults in the room, the bulwark against the whims of the mob, our national descent into chaos will be complete.

Kids and adults have sex for many, many reasons... Put out a question box.

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.

Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

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

For adults to enjoy something, they need to have intellectual stimulation, something that's related to real life.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.

For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail.

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

I started when I was five, and grew up playing against adults and against men most of the time.

Kids and adults alike are having their curiosity drained away by boredom in class or the workplace, and by the unremitting background noise of a dumbed-down pop culture.

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.

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

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often people get offended by it.

People who concern themselves with the rights of other adults who engage in consensual acts involving sex, love, and/or eating croissants together are damaged and in pain.

If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it.

My older sister Celia is an actress as well. She's a little bit older than me. So, in my formative years, she was always performing, and we would always go see her do things. And so, that just made me want to be... like her. Maybe if she was an Olympic swimmer, I would probably be an Olympic swimmer by now as well!

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were clueless goobers.

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.

Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children.

If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.

The unit of every country is the family and the strength of the country is based on the smiles of the children and songs of the adults.

Oh contraire, mon frère. I’m able to annoy all adults in ten syllables or less. Sometimes, I don’t even have to speak at all. I just walk into the room and it rankles them.

You see families at a restaurant and the kids are on the phone and the adults are on the phone. It's just a catastrophe.

Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.

My comedy is for adults, but you can have your kids listen to it. They won't get all the jokes because hopefully I'm more cerebral than a 10-year-old... but if you ask my wife, I'm not!

We're all family at the end of the day - connected to other members of our family as adults or children.

For all adults who haven't had a very rosy childhood, the first thing they will tell you is that they want to give their child everything that they did not have. That's something that has stuck with me.