Adult World Quotes

#1. There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

Sherman Alexie

#2. You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.

Daniel Handler

#3. The best thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#4. 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

#5. As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.

Angela Cartwright

#6. 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

#7. Siblings are the guarantors that the private childhood world - so unlike the adult world that scientists are only just beginning to understand it - is a fully shared and objective one.

Alison Gopnik

#8. When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#9. How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world.

Erica Jong

#10. I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.

Agyness Deyn

#11. Before the seventeenth century, a child passed directly into the adult world between the ages of five and seven ... then came the industrial revolution ... so the child-centered home was born.

Billy Graham

#12. He treated Root exactly as he treated prime numbers. For him, primes were the base on which all other natural numbers relied; and children were the foundation of everything worthwhile in the adult world

Yoko Ogawa

#13. Filming is a very adult world, and you need to be with people your own age.

Georgie Henley

#14. Every day, I get e-mails from kids who want a tree - a world away from the adult world.

Jean Craighead George

#15. Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.

Rian Johnson

#16. How can children bombarded from birth by noise, frenetic schedules, and the helter-skelter caretaking of a fast-paced adult world learn to analyze, reflect, ponder? How can they use quiet inner conversation to build personal realities, sharpen and extend their visual reasoning?

Jane M. Healy

#17. Death is the Santa Claus of the adult world. Except Santa Claus in reverse. The guy who takes all the presents away.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#18. When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

Henry Rollins

#19. I like getting to be in the adult world a little bit and then getting to be in the mom world and cook dinners. And, for me, that balance is what makes it nice.

Keri Russell

#20. The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#21. Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality.

Gore Vidal

#22. As for children's working off aggressions, I'm against it. They are going to need all the aggressions they can contain for ultimate release in the adult world. Name one great man in history who did not go boiling and bubbling through childhood with a lashed-down safety valve.

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk.

David Small

#24. She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.

Neil Gaiman

#25. Buffy's very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons?

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#26. There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Jean Baudrillard

#27. I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being who is tremendously respected by the adult world, and realizing that that person is actually a malicious lunatic.

Kurt Vonnegut

#28. A toast to the birthday boy!' Myrna shouted. 'Welcome to the adult world, hon. It's lonely, it's miserable, and God help you. But there are bright spots, and nights like tonight are one of them.

Natalie Standiford

#29. The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me.

J.K. Rowling

#30. I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life.

LeAnn Rimes

#31. I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.

Jack Davenport

#32. When I was growing up in the Forties and Fifties, you could hide your children from the difficulties of life, but today you can't separate children's contact with the adult world today.

Michael Morpurgo

#33. 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

#34. This was not a fairy tale, this was the real, the adult world in which frogs did not
address princesses, and the only messages were the ones that people sent

Ian McEwan

#35. I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult world. Toys are not innocent.

Chris Burden

#36. Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.

Celia Green

#37. I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

Shirley Henderson

#38. Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people.

Ruth Handler

#39. I think that there comes a point in the life of every young person to break away from the intimacy that they share with their parents. It is not to say that the intimacy is lost, but that it needs to change as children forge an autonomous identity and make their way into the adult world.

Polixeni Papapetrou

#40. The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#41. (Quality time means giving a child undivided attention. For a small child, it means sitting on the floor ... )You must get down on the child's level if you eventually want to lead them to the adult world.

Gary Chapman

#42. My first reaction was that the adult world was fake and liars and basically worked for money and power. I didn't want to live in that world, so I spent a year, aged 17 to 18, trying to kill myself. I didn't want to live in a world of violence and injustice.

Patch Adams

#43. Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

Mandy Moore

#44. These children will not be coming of age, this or any other summer. This August will not ask them to find hidden reserves of strength and courage as they confront the complexity of the adult world and come away sadder and wiser and bonded for life. This summer has other requirement for them.

Tana French

#45. When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

Vivienne Westwood

#46. In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

Richard Louv

#47. That's true. It doesn't make any sense. Welcome to the adult world, coming soon. I work so I can work more. I try not to want anything so maybe I'll get something. I starve so I can be less and more. I try to be free so I can be alone. And there's no point to any of it. They left out that part.

David Vann

#48. It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world.

Timothy B. Tyson

#49. Nathaniel Strider could never love. He's obviously discovered early on that girls' hearts were vulnerable and all a lad needed was a penetrating gaze and a disarming smile and the world was at his feet.

Tess Oliver

#50. I want to have the eyes of an adult to see the world as it is, but I more desperately want to have the heart of a child to make certain that I never forget what it could be.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#51. Then let me be your mercy," he said. "I'll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come into your world and try to be some kind of help to you.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#52. Curiouser and curiouser, he says. I smile at the reference. Carroll was totally a witch. The secrets of our world are written into that book.

Danielle Ellison

#53. As an adult, most of my friends are women . . . they, too, had that moment when they realized they were all the "other girls," and that every girl in the world is, too.

Mara Wilson

#54. Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn

Abbi Glines

#55. My dad believes that bad disguises itself - that danger hides. I think it's the opposite. The truly horrible things about the world are always reaching out for you.

Brian James

#56. Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret.

Richard Jenkins

#57. Imagination is a safety net that catches you. There is no going too far, no need for a safe word inside your mind. This world is your creation.

K. Kiker

#58. I love Pixar films; I think they're the greatest filmmakers in the world. I love Disney films. 'Tangled,' was great. I loved 'How to Train Your Dragon,' the Dreamworks film. But it's not for me. I don't want to make a film for families; I want to make adult films.

Bill Plympton

#59. Meg," he whispered. "It wouldn't be real love if there weren't the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn't choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That's why there's evil in this world, because there's free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#60. I was a kid who did a kid show. Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult.

Jamie Lynn Spears

#61. Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.

Bill Bryson

#62. Our young people - and adults - should be aware that considerable dissent exists in the scientific world regarding the validity of molecules-to-man evolution.

Ken Ham

#63. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Rachel Carson

#64. I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.

Diablo Cody

#65. I 'd never seen him cry; I didn't think he could . It would have to take something greater than the end of the world to reduce Vaughn Ashby to tears .

Lauren DeStefano

#66. The would-be maturing believer is not challenged to any adult faith or service to the world, much less mystical union. Everyone ends up in a muddled middle, where "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity," as William Butler Yeats put it.

Richard Rohr

#67. Clouds buzz by, unaware of the scary world below them. I envy them. I envy the easy way that they live and die. They never have to worry about tomorrow and what horrors or death it might bring.

Dannielle Wicks

#68. In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.

Muriel Barbery

#69. There is no adult terror equivalent to what an innocent child experiences when first confronted with the truth that evil is not merely a figment of fairy tales, that it walks the world in countless forms, and that what it seeks most aggressively is the destruction of the innocent.

Dean Koontz

#70. Maybe I'm stupid. Maybe I'm just as evil as he is by keeping my mouth shut. But he told me once that I was different. And I can't help but hope that me being different is the one thing in this world that can save him from what he fears the most ... Himself.

Lauren Hammond

#71. Quinton: I think if every person had a Nova Reed in this world, then life would be a little sunnier.

Jessica Sorensen

#72. We're all captives, in one way or another . . .

Jaye Frances

#73. And when whatever happened in that barn happened, it was a moment I'll never forget. Like a missing key slid into a dusty old lock. Click. My world opened.

Jennifer Walkup

#74. She was damaged and broken and there wasn't any kind of glue in the world that could fix her.

Julie Bale

#75. I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.

Dean Koontz

#76. When they're together, the world could fall apart around them and they'd never notice or care as long as they have each other.
About Alex and Brittany.

Simone Elkeles

#77. As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.

Chris Hemsworth

#78. Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together.
You can do it.

Sherman Alexie

#79. Ignacio climbed into his lap and examined his face. It was a relief to be in a child's world, where kindness was the standard operating mode, where clarity was the order of the day, and adult posturing kept its distance. Hearings

Shanthi Sekaran

#80. You are my star in this dark, dark world that we inhabit.

Misty Daniel

#81. Chloe helps to calm me. She makes me feel like nothing in this world exist other than the two of us. I love her more than anything and one day she'll be all mine.

T.H. Snyder

#82. These trials aren't about revenge. They're about justice. Don't you want justice, Rose Justice?

Elizabeth Wein

#83. When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded by death that I realized I had never felt more alive.

Nenia Campbell

#84. The greatest compliment in the world is your adult children telling you they had a wonderful childhood.

Ron Baratono

#85. I was 11 years old when I saw the first season of 'The Real World.' Initially, I was drawn to the show because it was what I imagined the adult version of my life should be.

Andrea Seigel

#86. I wish for all who look for Gold,
Shall find one letter less,
A world where trying always wins,
And leaves the loser blessed.

Frederic M. Perrin

#87. I want to make people smile. I want to tell an epic story ... with laughter. I want to change the way people view the world. I want life to stop being so damn dramatic all the time. I want ... what are you doing?

Cassie Mae

#88. And if you ever feel yourself losing your way again,Cooper,and find that you just can't get your shit together,just reach out and love someone.Love is the most adult action anyone can ever carry out in this emotionally-stunted world,and once you love,the rest will fall into place.It has to.

Seth King

#89. I find it rather depressing that the people you love most in this world can also be the same exact people you hate with fervor. But it can happen, trust me.
It was the f***ing story of my life.

Christina Channelle

#90. 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

#91. The dark held new meaning for me now. There was a whole other world out there that I was just beginning to discover ... A world that had once been only farce was now very real. -Abby Sullivan; Redemption

Kellie Thacker

#92. How do you become an adult in a society that doesn't ask for sacrifice? How do you become a man in a world that doesn't require courage?

Sebastian Junger

#93. I think I need to avoid the world today. There's no way I
can adult.

Gena Showalter

#94. I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't stop just because one person is asleep.

Anna Sheehan

#95. There's definitely one person in this world I know I can count on. She's there in the mirror.

E. Katherine Kottaras

#96. Why didn't you let me die? You could have finally been free."
"I gave up trying to imagine a world without you." - Essallie & Kayden

Alivia Anders

#97. Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life ... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

Gaston Bachelard

#98. After all, humans - especially adult ones - want to believe the most mundane truths possible. They need to, in order to stop their world-views, and their sanity, from capsizing and plunging them into the vast ocean of the incomprehensible.

Matt Haig

#99. MADDIE: I know what it's like to be ignored. I know what it's like to feel like everyone in the world is against you. I know what it feels like to be on the outside and wanting desperately to be accepted.

Ruby Dixon

#100. So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead of the ethical, successful use of adult stem cells? Because they do not know the difference.

Virginia Foxx