Top 1200 Young Adults Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I guess people don't think that young girls or young artists have opinions, but I'm so glad that there's artists like Lorde and Raury and Kehlani because they're showing other people that young people can have an opinion and a voice and do really well with it. I'm glad I can be one of those people.

The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber.

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the 'Age War.' The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.

Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.

Coloring is relaxing even for adults - and cheap therapy.

My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.

I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults.

For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish.

We're allowed as adults to create a life that we like. Kids don't have that freedom.

Kids know nothing about racism. They're taught that by adults.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

Directing adults is not the same kind of collaboration as you have with a teenager or kid.

Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults

We have to step up as adults and try to guide our youth.

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

It's easier to be a grownup than to be a kid. When you're a kid, you lie constantly and people are always calling you on it. And when you're a grownup, you lie constantly and people rarely do. Children are constantly being caught. Adults rarely so. Being an adult, you also get a free pass, which means you have to actively be a good person because nobody's around to tell you to do that. Even evil kids will be good when adults are watching. But once you're an adult, no one is. As a grownup, you've got an agency over your own life, which hopefully you use for the greater good and not evil.

I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.

Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.

Kids have this resistance to listening to adults and authority, period.

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

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

Young Sally Owens: He will hear my call a mile away. He will whistle my favorite song. He can ride a pony backwards. Young Gillian Owens: What are you doing? Young Sally Owens: Summoning up a true love spell called Amas Veritas. He can flip pancakes in the air. He'll be marvelously kind. And his favorite shape will be a star. And he'll have one green eye and one blue. Young Gillian Owens: Thought you never wanted to fall in love. Young Sally Owens: That's the point. The guy I dreamed of doesn't exist. And if he doesn't exist I'll never die of a broken heart.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

Actors are adults playing hide-and-ego-seek.

In adults, dependability is the fruit of maturity; in a child, it is the seed.

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.

I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.

I wouldn't have voted to prosecute 13-year-olds as adults.

We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.

And look, we have young people in this country who are thirty years old living with their parents. We have young people in this country who don't have jobs, who graduate from college and are fed the lie of meritocracy. "You get a degree, you get a job." That's not happening. We have young people who have become the Zero Generation: zero hope, zero employment, zero possibilities. Do we really believe that this young generation is going to stand by and not take note of an economic system that - however it calls itself - has completely betrayed them?

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children.

I learned early that I could get attention from adults with my drawings.

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

Paris is a city for adults and women who really enjoy fashion.

Children ought not to be victims of the choices adults make for them.

Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.

I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.

Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.

We're living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young men of color, being raised by single mothers. And their mothers so desperately want to connect with them, but I found, in talking with a lot of young men, that sometimes it's difficult.

Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children.

As children, our protests availed little. As adults, the same.

It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.

Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

A young man who came from Columbus, Ohio and made it, and who wants every other young man and young woman, black or white, to know that if I could do it, they could do it. Me and my fans grew up together, and I believe they know I'm a walking billboard and proof of that. That's what I see when I look in the mirror.

There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.

I very much like "Canada, the adults are talking" stance.

I'm always fascinated by the theme of children who parent the adults.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

The majority of my time working is with adults, so I have 'experience' without experiencing it.

We adults all stay sixteen or so in some corner of the soul.

Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.