Adult Quotes
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.
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When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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The creative adult is the child who survived.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'
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But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
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The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be.
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When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.
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The kids who played last year can say that was an adult problem, we won the title. We as adults dropped the ball.
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Now, I'm a dad, I'm an adult. I've been solo for 25 years; I've been in other people's groups but I'm solo [in a broader sense]. I stopped comparing myself to other people's maps when I was maybe 24, really. The trajectory that I've gone on is not one that I can compare with anybody else.
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The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
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children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.
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I don't need adult supervision.
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Adult gorillas being poached for their meat-baby gorillas stolen for the pet trade. I have just spent a week in West Africa seeing this for myself. I am horrified. I am desperate. But I am determined to do something about it and I'm in it for the long-haul. But I can't do it on my own.
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My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?
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I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school. I know [people] who had the popular, good-looking path in high school; they tend not to do so well. It was a little bit too easy for them, where for those of us who struggled in every sense, perhaps our determination and self-reliance and discipline were reinforced by that.
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It's easier to shape a child than to repair an adult.
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Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.
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I'm a Muslim Egyptian-American, born in Cairo. I grew up in Kuwait until the first Gulf War, when my family relocated to the United Arab Emirates. As an adult, I studied and lived in the U.K. before moving to Boston.
