Adults Acting Like Children Quotes & Sayings

How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children? — Thomas Sowell

Hovering above me, directly over the twirling Merkabah, was the cosmic phenomena I hoped for but had not truly expected. — L.Z.Marie

teenagers to eat without — Kimberly Lang

The chalks and slates fascinated them. They yearned to hold the white sticks in their hands, make little white squiggles like the other children, draw pictures of huts, cows, goats, and flowers. It was like magic, to make things appear out of nowhere. — Rohinton Mistry

A foolish mistake, it is, to expect the beast, because sometimes, sometimes, it is the flower's turn to own the name. — Tiffany McDaniel

This is what creation is. The might and marvel of forever creating out of opposition. — Florida Scott-Maxwell

Thoreau wrote, "Simplify! Simplify!" And, indeed, simplification is one mark of real genius. — Dan Ariely

Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device. — Seth MacFarlane

God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise — Craig Groeschel

Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology. — Robert Anton Wilson

I despise this false lucidity that comes with age. The truth is that they are just like everyone else: nothing more than kids without a clue about what has happened to them, acting big and tough when in fact all they want is to burst into tears.
And yet there's nothing to understand. The problem is that children believe what adults say and, once they're adults themselves, they exact their revenge by deceiving their own children. 'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late. The mystery remains intact, but all your available energy has long been wasted on stupid things. All that's left is to anesthetize yourself by trying to hide the fact that you can't find any meaning in your life, and then, the better to convince yourself, you deceive your own children. — Muriel Barbery

I don't want corporate America to think they can continue their duplicitous double-dealing. — Joe Jamail

The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace' ... A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with. — Ehud Barak

There have been many stories recently about the bullying epidemic that seems to be occurring in our public school system. We should not be terribly surprised by this because children emulate what they see adults doing. One does not have to look at television for very long or listen to the radio for an extended period before one sees supposedly rational and mature adults vehemently attacking one another, calling each other names and acting like third graders. — Ben Carson

How heavy do I journey on the way,
When what I seek (my weary travel's end)
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say,
"Thus far the miles are measur'd from thy friend."
The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods [dully] on, to bear that weight in me,
As if by some instinct the wretch did know
His rider lov'd not speed, being made from thee.
The bloody spur cannot provoke him on,
That sometimes anger thrusts into his hide,
Which heavily he answers with a groan,
More sharp to me than spurring to his side,
For that same groan doth put this in my mind:
My grief lies onward and my joy behind. — William Shakespeare

Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done. — Bret Easton Ellis

what terrifies me most is how we
foam at the mouth with envy
when others succeed
but sigh in relief
when they are failing

our struggle to
celebrate each other is
what's proven most difficult
in being human — Rupi Kaur

We cannot learn something new and stick to it without a modular approach to application, positive reinforcement and a real change of environment. — David Amerland