Responsible Adults Quotes

#1. People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?

Ricardo Semler

#2. I'm sure that we can handle this situation maturely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr. Poopy Pants?

Leslie Nielsen

#3. Zero-tolerance on drinking and driving - meaning no drinking at all before driving - is a collective punishment that, in essence, only affects responsible adults who follow the law.

David Harsanyi

#4. The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults

Dennis Prager

#5. We got babies raising babies, and its important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.

Alonzo Mourning

#6. By the age of 18, the average child has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence, including 18,000 simulated murders, on television. It is not always easy to provide clear, consistent structure for children, but providing it often helps keep children safe and helps them grow to be responsible adults.

Jean Illsley Clarke

#7. You never look at the backside of a mirror because when you do, it'll affect your future because you're looking at yourself backwards. No, you're looking at your inner self and you don't recognize it because you've never seen it before.

Gus Van Sant

#8. Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.

Paul Bloom

#9. To those who serve to protect the exotic animals in the rainforest. Thanks for making it possible for so many of them to remain in their natural habitat and for stopping those who are destroying the animals or transporting them from their homes in the wild.

Terry Spear

#10. Muslim children should be raised with the understanding that once they hit puberty they are adults and Mukallaf (responsible for their actions). This understanding is crucial to assist them in passing the tests of youth.

Abu Muawiyah Ismail Kamdar

#11. Technology makes people equal, it gives them a fair advantage.

Samer Chidiac

#12. 'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

Lynda Barry

#13. We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.

John Wesley

#14. Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Erich Fromm

#15. Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

Tom G. Palmer

#16. I think the issue to bring progressives together should be this most central of all issues - raising children to become responsible, empathetic adults.

George Lakoff

#17. Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N.

Kofi Annan

#18. Sometimes
you have to let love
fly out of your hand
for it can only live
in an open palm.

Sarah Katreen Hoggatt

#19. Nobody could be a professional cartoonist, because you have to do something you don't like to do in order to be a responsible adult and pay the rent.

David Rees

#20. Appropriate boundaries don't control, attack or hurt anyone. They simply prevent your treasures from being taken at the wrong time. Saying no to adults, who are responsible for getting their own needs met, may cause some discomfort. But it doesn't cause injury.

Henry Cloud

#21. We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

Kailash Satyarthi

#22. For Robert the experience was another step in education. He was learning in particular that patriotic declarations did not make due process of law superfluous and that he owed a debt to his own inner standards.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

#23. The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

Helen Mirren