Top 100 Adult Children Quotes
#1. The greatest compliment in the world is your adult children telling you they had a wonderful childhood.
Ron Baratono
#2. It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections ... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren.
Eda LeShan
#3. The Bible warns [parents] against extremes in dealing with our adult children. It tells us to avoid trying to control [them] once they become adults. When children become independent, a major transition takes place: They are no longer under our authority.
Billy Graham
#4. And we need to pray for our adult children to have an understanding of - and a desire for - the presence of the Holy Spirit so they can find all the freedom and liberty, deliverance and restoration, transformation and wholeness God has for them.
Stormie O'martian
#5. With improved coping skills forged through my midlife crisis, I now listen first and do not control, and I allow these now adult children to come to their own conclusions about what they want for their lives.
David W. Earle
#6. I talk about beepers going off in the middle of a concert and people being late and not apologizing, and people not RSVP-ing, and adult children going back to live with their parents, which we didn't have in the '60s and '70s.
Letitia Baldrige
#8. I have three adult children, and I have four grandchildren. I want to stop the deficits. I want to make sure that we're not passing on to my children and my grandchildren deficits and that we cannot repay and that they will have to repay and maybe they won't be able to repay them.
Doug Hoffman
#9. Parentified children learn to take responsibility for themselves and others early on. They tend to fade into the woodwork and let others take center stage. This extends into adulthood - adult children may put others' needs before their own. They may have difficulty accepting care and attention.
Kimberlee Roth
#10. American adult children, and I think most adult children, seem to believe that they are entitled to a perfect relationship with their parents and if it can't be perfect, if it is challenging in any way, then they are justified in abandonment because she/he is just too difficult to relate to.
Sharon Wildey
#11. In the pairs of mothers and their adult children that I have seen, mothers who cared for their children out of obligation are then cared for in their elderly years by their adult children out of a similar obligation.
Jasmin Lee Cori
#12. This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.
Ian McEwan
#13. We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.
Kenneth Keniston
#14. If it's something you can't say in front of your parents then it's probably worth saying.
Max Redford
#15. We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.
Romola Garai
#16. So many broken children living in grown bodies mimicking adult lives.
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
#17. Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?".
Robin Williams
#18. If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.
John Holt
#19. If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.
Bill Nye
#20. Chemistry is good for fun - it's like baseball. It has its role for small children, but I can't see an adult being concerned with it.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#21. The Devil loved watching children pour down the front steps of the high school like lava from a volcano. Trolling for souls. He posed in one of his favorite guises today, a school bus driver.
Serena Schreiber
#22. A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult.
Charles Spurgeon
#23. Without them, one's status as an adult is never secure; a childless adult creates adulthood for himself , and as exhilarating as it often is, it is also a state of perpetual insecurity
Hanya Yanagihara
#24. My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.
Gail Caldwell
#25. There were children playing on the commons. He thought of them as children, though he remembered thinking of himself as an adult at that age. Fifteen, sixteen years old.
James S.A. Corey
#26. Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity ... The second fundamental thing is independence.
Maria Montessori
#27. I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
Richard K. Morgan
#28. I love Fredorator and what they produce and the storytelling of 'Adventure Time' ... There's such a dark, adult underlying theme underneath the whimsical, magical children's aspect of their storytelling element.
Michelle Phan
#29. Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.
Catherine Doherty
#30. I cannot look at you with anything other than abhorrence, much less affection! I couldn't bare your presence when we were children and, I'm afraid to say, the repulsive way at which you have grown to be has made it even worse! You have taken everything from me...
Madeline Courtney
#31. For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um ... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something ... then yeah, they're old enough. LOL
Michelle M. Pillow
#32. Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations.
Molly Ringwald
#33. Adult novels are as ephemeral as newspapers. Children's books stay in print for decades.
Sid Fleischman
#34. Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.
George Bernard Shaw
#35. A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#36. A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.
E.M. Delafield
#37. NEVER make ISSUES out of things especially wth children...the moment they become ISSUES..they are most likely to stay in their heads as issues of their lives ! That is where most adult ISSUES come from.....
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#38. These days, kids need to be sensitive and care about others. Not even fake-caring either, but they're actually expected to worry about everyone's every feeling. Children basically have to behave as no adult has behaved ever.
Bijou Hunter
#39. I prefer to write books for children instead of reading them. But I do strongly believe in childhood and in respecting childhood innocence. I don't like books for children that deal with adult themes.
Philip Kerr
#40. Syd remembered that he had been surprised when he first learned that settlers on the Outer Worlds didn't infect their children with shark genes so that their adult teeth replaced themselves constantly as they wore out,
Tom Bruno
#41. Their meal was illuminated by torches, which Gwen found were utterly without fire. What the children called torches were really just small platforms on tall, wooden poles. The reason they radiated light was because fairies had flown up to them to waltz and glow on the tiny dance floors.
Audrey Greathouse
#42. Unfortunately on the road to Ankh everyone you love must die.
Children of Ankh series
Kim Cormack
#43. The difference between a child's toy and an adult toy is: location, location, location.
Demetri Martin
#44. I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.
Neil Gaiman
#45. I love nothing better than a dirty cartoon. I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children.
John DiMaggio
#46. You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.
Kelley Armstrong
#47. You don't treat me like a child."
He smiled. "Of course I do, but you seem to have this ridiculous notion that being treated like a child means to be treated with less respect than an adult.
Derek Landy
#48. We're all frightened. We go through life like little children. Every single one of us pretending to be an adult. All you can really do is find someone to be with who's less scared than you are.
Peter Quilter
#49. The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Margaret Mead
#50. Children do not need half a dozen sports, music, art, or theater activities. Kids actually need more free playtime without adult instruction.
Laura Schlessinger
#51. Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.
Marvin Minsky
#52. As a child, everyone dreams of finding treasure. There's romance and drama. But as an adult most people aren't going to spend their lives trying to find it.
E. Lee Spence
#53. When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able to heal the wounds of the child and the adult and begin to live the lives we've always wanted to live.
Cheri Huber
#54. A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.
Rebecca West
#55. Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.
David Walliams
#56. We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.
Ron Paul
#57. An adult can take a principle and adapt it to his needs. But we're not ready for that yet. We're children. And when you're teaching a child, you require him to do what is right until he grows old enough to make his own choices.
Brandon Sanderson
#58. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to CDC data, the U.S. population of overweight children between ages two and five increased by almost 36 percent from 1989 to 1999.
Richard Louv
#59. I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.
Jerry Lewis
#60. Just write what YOU want to write; how YOU want to write it!
K.D. Faerydae
#61. The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.
Maria Montessori
#62. My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
Usher
#63. Could some of the challenging behaviours that often partner autism begin as experiements on measuring human reactions? Are these children exploring boundaries - seeing what makes the toy squeak or the adult shriek?
Adele Devine
#64. Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal adult behavior in lower races.
Stephen Jay Gould
#65. Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.
Mason Cooley
#66. The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.
Maria Montessori
#67. It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.
R.L. Stine
#68. I am not only the person who wrote and sold a novel while raising a houseful of biological and foster children; I am also the person who wrote a horrific young adult novel that never sold and gave up on a foster child I couldn't handle - an experience that still haunts me.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#69. Children learned about the adult world by participating in it in a small way, by doing a little work and making a little money - a much more effective, because pleasurable, and a much cheaper method than the present one of requiring the adult world to be learned in the abstract in school. One's
Wendell Berry
#70. A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.
Joyce Brothers
#71. My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.
Amy Engel
#72. I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.
Donna Tartt
#73. There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.
Garry Trudeau
#74. The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.
Jerome Bruner
#75. How charming. The king and his little princess knocking on my covens door." Ursula sighed dramatically. "What do you insolent merfolks want with me now? I swear I haven't eaten any of your children."
-Ursula
Khalia Hades
#76. Play Therapy is based upon the fact that play is the child's natural medium of self-expression. It is an opportunity which is given to the child to 'play out' his feelings and problems just as, in certain types of adult therapy, an individual 'talks out' his difficulties.
Virginia Axline
#77. If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?
Ellen Galinsky
#78. You were a child, you didn't mean to hurt my feelings. Children are ignorant. It takes an adult to choose to be cruel.
Jan Strnad
#79. They wish not to become adult - not to have to accept our kind of responsibility. And yet like all children, they want to be thought grown up, and free to do what they think are grown up things. And that leads sometimes to tragedy and sometimes to the aftermath of tragedy.
Agatha Christie
#80. I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.
Burt Ward
#81. I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.
Dexter Fletcher
#82. The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
Pablo Picasso
#83. Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
Clint Eastwood
#84. Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
Agnes Repplier
#85. A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.
Vera B. Williams
#86. I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries.
Willie Aames
#87. Certainly, it's important to acknowledge and identify the effects of BPD on your life. It's equally important to realize that it neither dictates who you are nor fixes your destiny.
Kimberlee Roth
#88. Even before baptism, a child or an adult can have the Holy Ghost testify to their hearts of sacred truth. They must act on that testimony to retain it, but it will guide them toward goodness.
Henry B. Eyring
#89. In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who you might know.
Marie Rutkoski
#90. She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.
Rebecca West
#91. The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace' ... A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with.
Ehud Barak
#92. To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.
William Steig
#93. I don't like to photograph children as children. I like to see them as adults, as who they really are. I'm always looking for the side of who they might become.
Mary Ellen Mark
#94. In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
Jeffrey Kluger
#95. Grow to be a creative adult, and you'll develop and inspire others. Grow to be a thinker and you'll be aware of the animlas, the plants, and the fascinating veriety of people in our world.
Michelle Korenfeld
#96. Diet-related illnesses are causing nearly as many deaths as tobacco-related illnesses, not to mention the impact on quality of life when you start to develop adult-onset diabetes as a child, or all these other diet-related illnesses.
Anna Lappe
#97. A good book written for children can be read by adults.
Norton Juster
#98. Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who looks as though she may sprout wings and carry off the young children of the village. ~Maria "Smythe
Gwenn Wright
#99. She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.
Neil Gaiman
#100. You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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