Quotes of: Adult Keyword

I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.

Laura Benanti

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

Lewis B. Hershey

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.

Lauren Oliver

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

Lisa See

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

Mario Batali

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

Margaret A. Edwards

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

Maggie Gallagher

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.

Margaret Heffernan

Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.

Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

Richard Peck

I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

R. L. Stine

Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.

Russell Smith

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

Sherman Alexie

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.

Sherman Alexie

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

Martin Lewis Perl

We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

Noah Baumbach

Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.

Clayton Christensen

I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.

Elisabeth Moss

Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.

Mike Ditka

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

As you become an adult and start to make your way in life, you realize how much your friends are your family - though you get to make fun of your friends, too.

Gillian Jacobs