I know it's horrible to have to admit that, but I'm not adult enough to take care of a child. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
“But cocks aren’t supposed to lay eggs...” Sahil said, trying to untangle himself. “...they’re supposed to fertilise them.” — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
“Men, if desire, they don’t need to remove your clothes to rape you. Only their eyes are enough...” — Deepanshu Saini Copy Share Image
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Everyone has to learn to work with people - it's part of being an adult, too. — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
I don't condone any kind of violence. I've been on the receiving end of violence as an adult. I've witnessed it. — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
Being a fat kid - FFK, former fat kid - helped round me out, no pun intended. I'm a better adult because… — Willam Belli Copy Share Image
I had a very Christian mum, and she taught me a lot of values that I still hold as an adult. — Koffee Copy Share Image
And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish… — Carolyn Haywood Copy Share Image
I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Cancer magnifies the in-betweenness of young adulthood: You're not a child anymore, yet you're not fully ready to live in the adult… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
“Is there anything more adult than sticking with a relationship that’s falling apart in the hope that you can put it right?… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain. — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
“Conn was a wickedly passionate, fiercely dominant man who loved her too much to ever really hurt her.” — Joely Sue Burkhart Copy Share Image
I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think?” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn” — Richard Due Copy Share Image
We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves… — Patricia Sun Copy Share Image
You're working with adults and you're being paid to do a job. And you're a kid. Then you go back to high… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
On set, I like to be treated just like a normal adult actor. We all put as much time and effort into… — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Adult actors are really childish, and that's nice to be around when you're a kid. So the big reason I wanted to… — Jack Davenport Copy Share Image
I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me… — Kara Lindsay Copy Share Image
It's been very funny to try to act like an adult. Even getting dressed. Every day, I'm like, 'Should I wear a… — John Mulaney Copy Share Image
A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to… — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in… — Charles K. Kao Copy Share Image
Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that,… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
If you just got enough expertise and enough special techniques and read up enough, then you could shape a child into the… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place.… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
