Adult Perspective Quotes

Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

At the end of the day, as a grown man, I don't really care what the sexuality of the next man is.

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.

I remember as a kid liking long, funny words. And often being into things like that can be perceived as square. But actually, as we know now that we're adults, it's really cool. The more knowledge you have, the better.

I'm glad Phil Jackson got the rings for Chicago. You traded me away from New York, cool. It's all business; it's all love, whatever. But I'm a grownup now. You not my hero no more.

When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.

Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.

As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time.

Being a fat kid - FFK, former fat kid - helped round me out, no pun intended. I'm a better adult because I wasn't treated well as a child.

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't treat it like a child or a god, which some people do. This might just be in America, but 'stand-up comedy' is something very particular that I don't particularly relate to.

I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.