Adults Quotes

• What's central about numbers for us as adults is that we can apply a number like 7 to a diverse number of things. We can say that there are seven dots but also that a horn honks seven times. Although these are different in their sensory qualities, the numbers are the same.

  

  Elizabeth Spelke
  • Different
  • Qualities
  • Honks

• I had a very specific goal and I think kids, more than adults, don't understand obstacles and competition. I wanted to be this one cartoon character Porky Pig, couldn't figure out why I couldn't do it, other than living in the midwest.

  

  Bob Bergen
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Goal

• The point is to be OK with your stuttering - and meet adults who stutter who are doctors and lawyers and engineers.

  

  Amy Johnson
  • Point
  • Adults
  • Stuttering

• In his play he is no longer an onlooker merely; he is a part of the busy world of adults. He is practicing to take his place in that world when he is grown. He is getting is education.

  

  Caroline Pratt
  • World
  • Education
  • Play

• The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Stuff
  • Adults
  • Easiest

• What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

  

  Tom G. Palmer
  • Different
  • Differences
  • Libertarian

• When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves and is committed to them, its very unlikely they will grow up to be productive citizens of the world.

  

  Stephanie March
  • World
  • Children
  • Citizens

• You see the same profile of difficulty among the educated Bostonian adults, and the going-to-school Bostonian kids, and the adults and children in the Amazon. The problems that were hard for them were hard for us.

  

  Elizabeth Spelke
  • Kids
  • Problems
  • Educated

• All children are curious, I think, but not all adults are.

  

  Anne Roe
  • Children
  • Adults
  • Curious

• I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.

  

  Michelle Rodriguez
  • Taken
  • Humans
  • Beings

• I do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults.

  

  Mischa Barton
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Intelligent

• I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties, when there were not that many authors in whom I could recognize myself, he was an important guide and mentor to me as he was to many others. He helped me understand who I was and decipher the world around me. He gave me the words to defend myself and the argumentative rhetoric to master discussions with others.

  

  Raoul Peck
  • Important
  • Discussion
  • Guides

• 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
  • Behavior
  • Technique
  • Entrapment

• People think the film industry is going to corrupt me, but I feel like it's kept me more innocent, in a way. I wasn't really home when my friends were trying pot for the first time. I was always around adults who wouldn't smoke or curse or do anything like that around me. I don't do things that are dangerous to myself. I don't want to hurt myself.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Friends
  • Hurt

• I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Adults
  • Breasts

• Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Up
  • Children
  • Vote

• When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • Blessing
  • Disguise

• I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets, laughter, the taste of a good meal, the warmth of a hickory fire shared by real friends, the joy of discovery and accomplishment, the constant surprises of life.

  

  Eliot Wigginton
  • Children
  • Discovery
  • Accomplishment

• I found a 1992 New York Times article:Bill Clinton playing golf at a club that he played at all of his adult life as governor, that didn't allow black membership! I guarantee most Americans don't know that.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Black
  • Golf
  • Articles

• Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.

  

  Francis Crick
  • Christianity
  • Taught
  • Private

• When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

  

  Chico Xavier
  • Children
  • Faces
  • Mirrors

• Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Long
  • Children
  • Baby

• Only an adult with dying dreams can appreciate how awesome it is to have a dog.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Dream
  • Dog
  • Dying

• Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.

  

  Todd Burpo
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Jesus

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