Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Many people have overcome that home situation simply by having at least one caring adult, whether a teacher, mentor or religious leader. — James Redford Copy Share Image
This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
When you were a child you had dreams of becoming somebody as an adult. Have you lived up to your dreams? — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends. — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
Now, as an adult, I appreciate those memories. Mom taught me the importance of compassion for your waitress, your crossing guard, your… — Cate Edwards Copy Share Image
“I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child.… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
I'm going old school. Adult comedy but you can have your kids in the room. Kind of Andy Griffith meets Bill Cosby… — Henry Cho Copy Share Image
When I became an adult, I had absolutely nothing against drinking alcohol. Many of my friends drank. I would often make wine… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
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… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
People who grew up as child stars have the same thing in common. You're cute, they love you; you go through the… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves… — Stephanie March Copy Share Image
A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
As a society, almost one 1 of 2 adults has a chronic disease of one form or another. And where we're spending… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how… — Evan Sayet Copy Share Image
Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural… — William James Copy Share Image
That is why in adult life, people generally tend to relive rather than live, that is, to repeat the patterns of the… — Robert W. Firestone Copy Share Image
No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away,… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
The fact that I am so young So Immature Seems unforgivable to The decrepit Perfect and faultless adults — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Kids are natural little outdoor people. It is we, the adults, who turn them into indoor people. If you don't get of… — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Adults tend to think they have much free will. Kids younger than six are less sure. They may be more realistic! — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I'm 44 now and have been working in comics for most of my adult life. I've been blessed to have had the… — Jamal Igle Copy Share Image
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. — Blake Clark Copy Share Image
I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
It's not easy being a teenager, we get treated like children but expected to act like adults. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device. — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore. — Paul Feig Copy Share Image