Adults Quotes
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It's about transitioning from adolescence, when you live together with parents and see each other every day, to the era when you don't live together and start to grow apart and have to figure out how you're going to have an adult relationship.
K. M. Soehnlein -
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
Banana Yoshimoto
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I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.
Sherman Alexie -
Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.
Seth MacFarlane -
I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
If children could, if adults knew.
Sigmund Freud -
Children ought not to be victims of the choices adults make for them.
Wade Horn -
I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote.
2 Chainz
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
William Golding -
The problem with parents is that they're adults.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
Andrew Wiles -
The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.
Alan Rickman
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You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'...You can't have it both ways.
Ally Carter -
I have a very eclectic group of fans. I have fans that love me for me and who have never even seen my adult work. They just like my music, or they just like me.
Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine -
Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.
Barry Lyga -
Including more women and young adults, while using a capital efficient way to expand our square footage and distribution network.
J. M. Roberts -
Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.
David Elkind
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I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC -
The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.
Tim Ferriss -
We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Kids believe in Santa; adults believe in childhood.
Cate Kennedy