Adult Quotes · Page 7

“A FULLY ADULT HUMAN, RESPONSIBLE FOR HER OWN CHOICES”

— Irin Carmon

“But—" yelped Twizbang, “Greydor will eat us!”

— Richard Due

I really don't want to feel like an adult.

— Gilbert Arenas

The only thing an adult can give a child is time.

— Chuck Jones

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.

— Anthony Burgess

“Not now, imp. We have many dull adult things to do.”

— Holly Black

I refuse to grow up. I won't become the adult guy.

— Charlie Sheen

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

— Jacob K. Javits

My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

— Camilla Belle

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

— Chris Hardwick

“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.”

— Margaret Atwood

I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn't really like being an adolescent at all.

— Finneas

As a kid I was always barefoot, always outside and as an adult I always want to be outside.

— Niki Caro

Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced…

— Mara Wilson

You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.

— Terry Rossio

I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

— J. Michael Straczynski

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been…

— Eric Schmidt

Too many times, adults walk into situations, and people have already put them in a box: 'Oh, you write comedy.' Or, 'You're…

— Anne Sweeney

“The idea of not being a kid anymore terrifies me. I am an adult and I have been hurled out of the…

— Kelley York

When you're a kid, you might be picked on for your differences. When you're an adult, employers, colleges, friends - people look…

— Crystal Bowersox

Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us…

— Stephen Kinzer

Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I…

— Magnus Scheving

I think you are taken more seriously as a young adult when you are on a film set and you are doing…

— Sarah Bolger

I'm not one to sit here and judge here. But I think it's funny that the people that condemn the adult industry…

— Sasha Grey

To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this…

— Jane Ridley

“I'm not a child, Dad. And I'm not grounded anymore, remember?' 'Oh yes, you are. Starting now.' 'For what?' 'Because I said…

— Stephenie Meyer

I only had girlfriends when I became an adult. I was always playing with boys when I was a kid. And I…

— Susanne Bier

I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in…

— Kresley Cole

Youthful social media users share their personal lives online, tweeting and posting everything from their relationship status to their current location to…

— Alexa Von Tobel

... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering…

— Bob Black

Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2…

— Joshua Foer

To be honest, I was the world's worst vegetarian. You see - I didn't really like vegetables very much. I'd spent most…

— Rob Manuel

People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.

— T-Pain

Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

— Ned Vizzini

I'm a writer. I've been a journalist for my whole adult life.

— Stephen J. Dubner

The worst part about being an adult is being tired all the time and taxes…

— Anonymous

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult.

— George Lucas

The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.

— Lawrence Durrell

I'm very conscious that I've spent my whole adult life in the public eye.

— Georgia Toffolo

Being an adult can be fun when you are acting like a child.

— Anonymous