Adults Quotes
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Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.
Carrie Chapman Catt -
I'm really lucky to have my brother because I know a lot of teenagers, and even adults, aren't as close to their siblings. Working in Hollywood definitely does bring us together and gives us something to connect on. I had an audition yesterday and he came by before and ran my sides with me. Being able to work on things together is really cool and it gives us something to have in common.
Ellery Sprayberry
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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.
Alejandro Zambra -
You know, how am I leading my own life? What am I denying? Since I brought such great powers of denial into my adult life, what am I not doing as a husband? What am I not doing as a father? The whole thing started unraveling with me that once I kept it up close to the chest, I could hold it all in, but once I started letting it out, it all started coming out.
Terry Gross -
Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.
C. S. Lewis -
At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.
William Landay -
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.
Conan O'Brien -
I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.
Robert Farrell Smith
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Children like to work, and are always eager to imitate the work of adults.
Georgi Plekhanov -
Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.
Tom G. Palmer -
Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.
David Alan Harvey -
Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.
Edgar Friedenberg -
The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
Elliot W. Eisner -
It's always hard when you make a movie that's fundamentally about kids for adults. How do you make people aware of who the adult cast is without making them feel that the adults are the center of it? You don't want to make it misleading, but at the same time you want to make it appealing.
Scott Rudin
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Even in my town, even in San Francisco, thousands of gay men were arrested usually using entrapment techniques every single year for sexual behavior between consenting adults. That continued well into the 1970s until it was finally decriminalized in 1976, I believe.
Cleve Jones -
We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.
Gayle Rubin -
I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.
Jill Soloway -
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.
Beverly Engel -
I have heard it said that children are getting older. I think adults are getting younger.
Abigail Tarttelin -
Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.
Kate Morton
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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
Marian Wright Edelman -
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.
Jason Lee -
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.
Tom G. Palmer -
Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
Jasper Fforde