The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements. — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults. — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth… — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were… — Annabeth Gish Copy Share Image
“I thought if you were adult enough to hold down a job then you were adult enough to work unsupervised.” — Barbra Annino Copy Share Image
Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare. — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as… — Aaron Staton Copy Share Image
As far I'm concerned, being an adult is way more fun than being a kid. But then I was a kid who… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
Much of my adult life has been spent fighting for equal opportunity, and the idea that I would support limiting opportunity for… — Paul Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
“No one can become a truly biblical adult without setting some limits, leaving home, and cleaving somewhere else. Otherwise, we never know… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because… — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I can't stand it when people treat life as a soap box, I wish they get their heads outta their asses and… — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
I became an adult before I had a kid, which I highly recommend. I just like to throw her around. She's a… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
Sometimes we go out of the way just to prove we can be adults. But even though you are growing up, even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Birdie, this is for adults to figure out.” Birdie planted her feet where she stood. “I am an adult.” Walter shook his… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I wandered right… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
In Toronto, I grew up taking a subway, I grew up taking a bus. I spent my formative adult years in New… — Enrico Colantoni Copy Share Image
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Definition of LOVE by age: Children:(n)- icky gross ew ew ew. Teenager:(n)- perfect, amazing, beautiful, just plain awesome, the tears on your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
“That's all life is kiddo. When you've had enough contributions to your delinquency, then you're officially an adult.” — John Corwin Copy Share Image
It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work. — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
I was 17, on TV, and kind of thought, 'I'm awesome. Why don't you treat me like an adult?' I was arrogant. — Samara Weaving Copy Share Image
It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played. — June Allyson Copy Share Image
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
As a child, I was awkward, fidgety, and shy, with a total inability to concentrate, and in that regard, I'm exactly the… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
“Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow; that I couldn’t allow if I wanted… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
Being an adult means knowing you can have cake for every meal, but choosing not to have cake for every meal because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.” — David Richo Copy Share Image
As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating. — Vanessa Bayer Copy Share Image
I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting. — Maika Monroe Copy Share Image
“The more knowledge I gain, the more like an adult I feel. I never got this chance to become an adult.” — Jaycee Dugard Copy Share Image
