Adults Quotes
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I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.
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I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.
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Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?
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Children like to work, and are always eager to imitate the work of adults.
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Many neglected and abused children grow up to be adults who are afraid to take risks of striking out on their own. Many will remain dependent on their abusive parents and unable to separate from them. Others leave their abusive parents only to attach themselves to a partner who is controlling.
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Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.
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Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.
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Children need adult men in their lives.
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The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you be a child anymore. The first kiss is the one that you suffer the consequences of. It was as if I had been playing Russian roulette and finally got the cylinder with the bullet in it.
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To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.
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As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.
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I think kids like chaos, in an interesting way. I think kids like to push buttons in adults. They like to antagonize and cause trouble. I think it's the kid-like spirit that kids respond to.
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This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.
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I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.
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I have heard it said that children are getting older. I think adults are getting younger.
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But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.
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Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.
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Adolescents have a very rocky insecure time. Grown-ups treat them like children and yet expect them to act like adults. They give them orders like little animals, then expect them to react like mature, and always rational, self-assured persons of legal stature.
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According to a new survey, 40 percent of adults in Mexico say they would move to the United States if they got a chance. The number would have been higher, but the other 60 percent already live here.
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The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
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Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful peace. Because we adults don't usually practice enough solitude—because we are always 'doing' things—we often neglect to teach our boys to find solitude.
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The adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast a departure from what they have been conditioned into accepting as the norm.
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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them.
