Adult Quotes

Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.

I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.

My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.

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

I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

The only thing an adult can give a child is time.

I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.

Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia.

'Marnie' was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.

Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.