Adult Quotes

It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.

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

It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.

I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all. Looking back on my career in television and making a movie like 'The Sound of Music' from an adult point of view, it actually seems kind of unreal. I was involved in shows that people grew up with - that hold memories for them - and it's a cool feeling.

Turning 16 is kind of scary because when you're 16, you go from being a kid and then you can drive and are more of a young adult in a way.

But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.

I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult.

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.

Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people.

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.

I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.