I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“adult life is full of hardship, childhood should be free of it.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
All my adult life, there was the Troubles. That was the backdrop of my life. — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
“I’ve spent my adult life leaping off cliffs that turn out to be curbs.” — Steve Turtell Copy Share Image
“he job and Career Information Services Committee of the Adult Lifelong Learning Section of the Public Library Division of the American Library… — Public Library Association Copy Share Image
I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's… — Jacob Hashimoto Copy Share Image
For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount. — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
SpongeBob is a kid living an adult life. He has a job. Kids think being a fry cook is a great job. — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
As somebody who has spent her entire adult life defending this country, I'd say defending our elections is a fundamental part of… — Amy McGrath Copy Share Image
I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding. — Jerry Falwell, Jr Copy Share Image
I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“peculiar, or sad, and yet still deserve a place within the circle of familial love. The parents would thus have created an… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“If your metric for the value “success by worldly standards” is “Buy a house and a nice car,” and you spend twenty… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“We should give chaos pride of place once a year or so, designating occasions on which we can be briefly exempted from… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I have this theory that most artists never leave childhood, that you're endlessly trying to work out what happened. And leaving university… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not… — Sarah Hepola Copy Share Image
“Symbols, for me and for many, of freedom, whether it be from the prison of over-dense communities and the close confines of… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
“The truth was that I didn’t know how I felt about my long-lost baby sister being in Ashland, much less the fact… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
“This is a man who spent his adult life at the bottom of a bottle, trying to anesthetize himself against the Capitol’s… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I can never forget the indescribably crafty shadow that passed over Flatfish's face as he laughed at me, his neck drawn in.… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Sports contained the truth, I decided, the unspoken truth (how quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“I sometimes felt guilty about betraying Dumbledore’s trust, of course he had admitted me to Hogwarts when no other Headmaster would have… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“All of that was eventually shown—there’s considerable adult neuro-genesis in the hippocampus (where roughly 3 percent of neurons are replaced each month)… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not… — Joshua Fields Millburn Copy Share Image
“When I was little, I longed and longed to be older, except now I can't recall what exactly it was that I… — Michelle Cooper Copy Share Image
“Love is a devoted madness while marriage is a responsibility. But then it is possible to be devotedly mad and responsible at… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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