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Adults are only kids grown up -- Walt Disney
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway. -- Walt Disney
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas -- Paula Poundstone
Adults are obsolete children. -- Dr. Seuss
Adults are the real monsters. -- Stephen King
Adults are just outdated children. -- Dr. Seuss
Adults are only obsolete children. -- Dr. Seuss
Jesus is Santa Claus for Adults -- Christopher Hitchens
Adults under threat feel like children. -- Martha Beck
Adults are just children who earn money. -- Kenneth Branagh
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what? -- Alison Espach
Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults. -- Mitch Hedberg
Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children. -- Juliette Lewis
Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted. -- Michael Reagan
Adults forget that kids are their own best censors. -- Tim Burton
The creative adult is the child who has survived. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. -- Dr. Seuss
Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. -- Jeanette Winterson
Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children. -- Richard Armitage
I love letters from little kids. Adults never proclaim themselves 'your #1 fan! -- Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good. -- Dave Ramsey
Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up. -- Erica Bauermeister
Before the war. Adults must use this phrase a zillion times a day. -- Eva Gray
Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults? -- Marilyn Manson
An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult. -- David Frost
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway -- Walt Disney
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves. -- Haruki Murakami
Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them. -- Neil Gaiman
Adults always acted like they could fix everything. But they can't. And they know it. -- Jana Oliver
Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device. -- Seth MacFarlane
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. -- John B. S. Haldane
Adults in a free country should be able to smoke a joint if they want to. -- Roseanne Barr
Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses. -- Michael Scott
Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children. -- Mason Cooley
Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh. -- Gary Paulsen
Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully. -- Fran Lebowitz
Adults werenâ??t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did. -- Kate Morton
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. -- Margaret Atwood
Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them. -- Maria Montessori
I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults. -- Natalie Portman
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. -- Sigmund Freud
Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear. -- Chelsea Handler
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? -- Erich Fromm
Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.- -- Christian Smith
Adults envy the open-hearted and open-minded explorations of children; seeing their joy and curiosity, we pine for our own capacity for wide-eyed wonder. -- Gabor Mate
Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right. -- Stefan Emunds
Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned. -- Ann Voskamp
Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids' creativity. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults. -- Molly Ivins
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. -- Paul Dudley White
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. -- Thomas Szasz
Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes. -- Susan Patron
Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you. -- Janette Rallison
Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny. -- Steve Martin
I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines. -- John Mellencamp
I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part. -- O. J. Simpson
As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other. -- Alejandro Zambra
Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day. -- Johnny Carson
Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much. -- Neil Gaiman
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. -- Richard Lamm
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. -- Margaret Mead
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. -- Alden Nowlan
I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world. -- Sophie Marceau
Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences. -- Nicolas Cage
The adults were completely wrong. -- Aaron Swartz
I'm generally intimidated by adults. -- Mayim Bialik
Tact is just lying for adults. -- Cassandra Clare
If children could, if adults knew. -- Sigmund Freud
Some children are wiser than adults. -- Thubten Yeshe
When adults wage war, children perish. -- Elie Wiesel
Acting, is not a profession for adults. -- Laurence Olivier
I'm fascinated in the children within adults. -- Jason Gann
Novels are make-believe and play for adults. -- Mohsin Hamid
Evolution is a fairy tale for adults -- Paul Lemoine
Everything we do is based at adults. -- Ingrid Newkirk
I love doing serious movies for adults. -- Carla Gugino
Kids believe in Santa; adults believe in childhood. -- Cate Kennedy
A lot of adults are very into Halloween. -- Suzanne Smith
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. -- Brian Aldiss
At times like this, adults need a drink -- Haruki Murakami
I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers. -- Michael K. Williams
Babies cannot eat meat but some adults like milk. -- J. Vernon McGee
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. -- Isaiah Berlin
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong? -- William Golding
It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults. -- Gail Carson Levine
Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner. -- Fran Lebowitz
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. -- Jessamyn West
My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children. -- Usher
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults -- Jessamyn West
I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults. -- Candace Bushnell
For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory. -- Eric Sevareid
Kids know nothing about racism. They're taught that by adults. -- Ruby Bridges
As children, our protests availed little. As adults, the same. -- Mason Cooley
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison. -- Salman Rushdie
I watch cartoons the way most adults watch reality-TV shows. -- Ne-Yo
Marriage is a cooperation between two adults holding God's hands -- Farid F. Ibrahim
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? -- Murray Banks
I very much like "Canada, the adults are talking" stance. -- Tucker Carlson
Lies are for adults who are sad in their lives. -- Jesse Eisenberg
Children do run from me. And so do some adults. -- Lana Parrilla
Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults. -- Nina Bawden
Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children. -- Paul A. Offit
Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse. -- Warren Spector
What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business. -- Shelley Berkley
Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care. -- Michael K. Simpson
Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint. -- Gregory Maguire
As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes. -- Xavier Becerra
C. diff can sometimes be life-threatening, even in healthy young adults. -- J. Thomas LaMont
...nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet. -- Tina Fey
All children are curious, I think, but not all adults are. -- Anne Roe
The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest. -- Ned Vizzini
A good book written for children can be read by adults -- Norton Juster
A good book written for children can be read by adults. -- Norton Juster
It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal. -- Jacob K. Javits
Good jobs look a lot like kids playing and adults working. -- Mike Rowe
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. -- Gore Vidal

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