Adult Responsibility Quotes

It's easier to be a grownup than to be a kid. When you're a kid, you lie constantly and people are always calling you on it. And when you're a grownup, you lie constantly and people rarely do. Children are constantly being caught. Adults rarely so. Being an adult, you also get a free pass, which means you have to actively be a good person because nobody's around to tell you to do that. Even evil kids will be good when adults are watching. But once you're an adult, no one is. As a grownup, you've got an agency over your own life, which hopefully you use for the greater good and not evil.

I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.

When kids grow up into adults now... they learn that taking care of their body is like taking care of their car. You're not going to put bad gas into your car. Why not treat your body the same way? It makes all the sense in the world for us to do the right thing for our bodies.

One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

I don't believe in men who make us feel unhappy, because they're boys, not men.

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

Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.

Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

Since becoming an alleged adult, I've always felt like I should exercise - or should at least want to exercise - and make a feeble attempt at health, thus staving off terrible things like the coronary heart disease and high cholesterol described to me in 1980s margarine commercials.

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.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

The age of eighteen, far more than the age of twenty-one, has been and is the age of maturity in America—and never more than now.

The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"

For the sake of our children, let's behave like civilized, law-abiding adults.

As a performer you often feel that you're the child and everyone else is a grown-up.

Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.

Until you can intelligently articulate the other side's position, you are not an adult. You are a liberal.

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

We've fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they're surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex, the rules of dignity and consent.

If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it.