Quotes of: Adult Keyword

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.

Erin Morgenstern

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

George Orwell

Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult.

Colin Quinn

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

Charles J. Shields

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

Dennis Potter

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

Donna Tartt

I don't see why it's such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film.

Bill Plympton

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

Bruce Springsteen

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.

Candace Cameron Bure

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.

Caroline B. Cooney

I was a kid who did a kid show. Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.

Jon Stewart

Very young children often accept the paranormal as “normal” until adults squeeze it out them.

Doug Dillon

When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.

Dwight Henry

Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.

Joanna Lumley

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

Rachel Cusk

It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits.

Terry Gilliam

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

John B. S. Haldane

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

Virginia Satir

[first lines] Giosué Orefice: [narrating as an adult] This is a simple story... but not an easy one to tell.

Life Is Beautiful

Adult Simba: You knew my father? Rafiki: Correction: I *know* your father.

The Lion King