(334 quotes found)
“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas”
Paula Poundstone
“The creative adult is the child who has survived.”
Ursula K. LeGuin
“I'm not sure I'm adult yet.”
Johnny Depp
“Love is staying up all night with a sick child -- or a healthy adult.”
David Frost
“For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.”
William Bennett
“If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty well”
Ruth Carlisle
“You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.”
Walt Disney
“Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.”
“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”
Jean Kerr
“Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.”
Henry C. Link
