Let me tell you something: for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.
There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.
Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.
I have inquired for most of my adult life, about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent, and I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.
When adults wage war, children perish.
I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted. I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better. I guess I was a philosophical child.
You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...
Juveniles as well as adults need to know they're going to be punished for their violent acts.
Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You've got to do something. Show us what you have.
I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.
Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.
Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.
We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts, our news is just as contrived, and controlled as Pravda!
One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.
It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.
The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.
I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.
Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.
You've got a guy in a cape and tights running around fighting crime 24-7; this is not normal. But it worked because the kids loved it and the adults laughed with it.
It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.
I don't need to prove I'm an adult by being ultra-sexy that's immature
The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers
