Happy Adults Quotes

#1. Not everybody loves their children. If that was a fact, all the children would be happy and they would make happy adults. Instead, we have lots of miserable children that later became miserable adults. This is a fact. We cannot change that.

Marjane Satrapi

#2. Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.

Dennis Prager

#3. I tried to be grown up but I have no interest in abiding by the adult rulebook. I want to do fun things that make me happy [ ... ] You might call me a child. Good. For if adults had even the slightest in-the-moment joy of a child then frankly the world would be a better place.

Miranda Hart

#4. A child can be very happy with very simple things; adult must do the same!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. If I think something's funny, I try to mold it into a joke as soon as possible. Once I have a joke, I say it a million different ways on stage until I find a rhythm and it feels like it's as good as it can be.

Michael Che

#6. When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.

Anna Chlumsky

#7. You can't raise a happy, more resilient kid if you're not a happy, more resilient adult.

Tony Robbins

#8. Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.

Ruth Benedict

#9. If Mitt Romney is vanilla, Chris Christie is three hefty scoops of Rocky Road topped with whipped cream, Red Bull, and gravel.

Ron Fournier

#10. To name her is to sink her," he told me. "That which we name takes greater weight than the sea it displaces. Ask any shipwreck.

Neal Shusterman

#11. Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.

Anna Chlumsky

#12. Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults

Jo Nesbo

#13. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

Jeanette Winterson

#14. What i realise now is that the story actually did have a happy ending: the children came back. In spite of everything the adults did to them, the children found their own way home, their pockets full of precious stones and pearls that gleamed and shone in the light.

Julia Green

#15. Love is fragile
she was thinking
but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that there's more to life than being happy. And so that's based on real life observations and things that we've learned as adults.

Pete Docter

#17. Only adults are so messed up that they rationalize the need to have a reason for being happy,

Cameron Jace

#18. But, I've learned, as we all must, that adults are jerks too. At least some of them. And that's why I feel so strongly that if you have the opportunity to surround yourself with people who aren't jerks, you should not just take it, but grab it, seize it, squeeze the living hell out of it.

Clinton Kelly

#19. I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

Brene Brown

#20. The slingshot?" said Mrs. Wiggins. "Georgie's got it. We're going to take it down to the cow barn for safe keeping. Well, Alice, you're the judge and the jury, and if you say let him go - " She nodded to her sisters, who set Jimmy down and released his arms. The

Walter R. Brooks

#21. I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.

Jeanette Winterson

#22. It puts a smile on my face to see all the children, and all the teenagers, and the adults - the demographics - it makes my heart very, very happy. I love them. I love all the fans, very much.

Michael Jackson

#23. I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.

Daniel Greenberg

#24. The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin

Wayne Grudem

#25. An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me ... And you know, people like happy endings.

Elinor Lipman

#26. Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.

Carolyn Haywood

#27. Amie frowned. 'That's what I can't figure out. I mean everyone wants their happy ending, right? No one cares about reading actual literature anymore anyway. All they want is vampires and supernatural mumbo-jumbo. It's sick, really.

Jennifer Silverwood

#28. The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#29. I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

Luis Barragan

#30. There is a saying, 'it's never too late to have a happy childhood'. I'd rephrase that. I'd say, it's never too late to stop a difficult childhood from turning us into unhappy adults.

Sally Brampton

#31. Then, like I wasn't thrown enough, Cal leaned down and picked up a potted African violet on the low table next to the sofa and brought it over to me. For a second, I wondered if this was his socially awkward way of trying to give me flowers.

Rachel Hawkins

#32. Even though I'm not with their mother, it's important for my kids to see adults in a committed and happy relationship. They need to see a strong relationship. You don't have to settle.

Michael Strahan

#33. A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

Nikolai Gogol

#34. Van Ritzen is one of the funniest humans I've ever met. Read her book, laugh, lather, rinse, repeat.

Mark Leiren-Young

#35. Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.

Bobby McFerrin

#36. It is unrealistic to assume that if all goes well in a child's life, he or she will be happy. Happiness is not something one can ask of a child. Children suffer in a way that adults don't always realize under the pressure their parents put on them to be happy.

Adam Phillips

#37. His voice in my mind is soft, just out of reach like a spent echo. I wonder if these memories are worth holding on to. Are worth the burden. I wonder what purpose they serve.

Carrie Ryan

#38. The last few weeks we had been playing poorly, but hopefully we can ride this all the way through Halloween.

Marcus Giles

#39. No adult is without problems except a happy imbecile.

Herman Wouk

#40. The penalizing of ability for being ability, the penalizing of success for being success, and the sacrifice of productive genius to the demands of envious mediocrity.

Ayn Rand