Act Like Adults Quotes

#1. We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun.

Tom DeLonge

#2. We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

Barack Obama

#3. How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?

Thomas Sowell

#4. Adolescents have a very rocky insecure time. Grown-ups treat them like children and yet expect them to act like adults. They give them orders like little animals, then expect them to react like mature, and always rational, self-assured persons of legal stature.

Beatrice Sparks

#5. If you treat people like adults they will act like adults, but if you treat them like children they will act like children.

Dennis Bakke

#6. I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.

Michael K. Williams

#7. Kids love watching adults act like children. It's that spirit they can relate to.

James Roday

#8. With teenagers, the emotions are higher and things are more dramatic. That doesn't mean adults don't also act like children in their own way.

Sara Shepard

#9. There are many different forms of bipolar and the way that it expresses itself.

Trai Byers

#10. The Mahabharata was not composed with the aim of describing a battle. The description of the battle serves only as a pretext.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

Meg Whitman

#12. You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

Markus Zusak

#13. I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.

Karen White

#14. If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.

Walt Disney

#15. Cher is really down-to-earth, very nurturing, incredibly funny and fun, a great storyteller, and creates a great environment on the set.

Steve Antin

#16. All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

John Grant

#17. 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

#18. I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#19. Ash was my best friend, my lover, and the closest thing to a soul mate I'd ever find,

Garrett Leigh

#20. Why are babies allowed to cry when they wake up, but adults crying when they wake is frowned upon? Babies are permitted to act like assholes whenever they feel like it and no one blinks ...

Chelsea Handler

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K.J. Watters

#22. Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.

Martin Rees

#23. Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults.

Harvey Kurtzman

#24. The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

Albert Einstein

#25. I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at themselves in my nicely polished looking glass.

James Joyce