Adult Quotes · Page 17

I spent much of my adult life focusing on my career and I take pride in my achievements in my field.

— Rachel Lindsay

I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“To be adult means, among other things, to see one’s own life in continuous perspective, both in retrospect and in prospect.”

— Samuel H. Barondes

The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with…

— Michael Bond

ABC is owned by Disney, so it's a little more conservative than Adult Swim. Polar opposites.

— Eric Andre

I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great.…

— Adam Ferrara

I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.

— Matthew Perry

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing…

— Jaron Lanier

We've fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they're surrounded by images of sexuality; and…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I don't think naturally I tend toward anything that's really distinctly branded as adult. I feel like I sort of write for…

— Noelle Stevenson

Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend.…

— David Blunkett

I don't know... it's just too much fun to wonder about what life would be without gravity. I just started thinking about…

— Dave Pirner

When your trying to be an adult in a relationship you seriously don't need to lie or front and try to put…

— Gabrielle Dennis

Strong families serve society by bringing forth healthy children and maturing young adults, by being a rich source of a compassion for…

— Vincent Nichols

People are always like, 'Oh, 'Jurassic Park' is on...' or 'Oh, 'The River Wild' is on...' I actually haven't seen any of…

— Joseph Mazzello

Some are short and sweet. Some are long and hard. But this time, I want one that is long, stimulating, and full…

— Brii Ann

Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship.

— Robert Webb

My favorite movie of all-time is 'Stand By Me,' and I re-read my favorite young adult books often.

— Emily Giffin

Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such…

— Richard Dreyfuss

I ordered a decaf coffee the other night, and I was like, 'Holy crap, I'm an adult.'

— Blackbear

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

— Janet Jackson

“For a child, everywhere is a playground; for an adult, it is the same, only the plays are different!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.

— Dwight Henry

Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love.

— Drummond Money-Coutts

I'm a little bit of an adult and still a bit of a kid. I hope I never lose enthusiasm for things…

— Scarlett Johansson

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

— Paula Poundstone

In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives.

— David Blunkett

Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.

— John Walters

Except, I think, it's more about me growing up and becoming an adult that I have this new best-friend type of relationship…

— Ashley Greene

Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an…

— David Lowery

Being an adult means being able to control all the variables necessary to create the context in which we are allowed to…

— Anonymous

An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.

— Henry Rollins

While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing…

— Jennifer Armentrout

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that…

— Robert Jay Lifton

“adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I want to be the kind of adult that keeps learning. I want to always be open to new experiences.

— Joshua Mohr

I feel like Vertigo is a place to have an adult discussion for adult readers.

— Gail Simone

“He leans forward and presses a kiss to my cheek. It's so romantic and soft. I want to capture it in a…

— R.S. Grey

I definitely wanted to be a woman and be treated as an adult, I wasn't interested in being young at all.

— Jessica Barden