The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do. — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
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A lot of the clothes out are very adult-driven and it would be cool if they were a little bit more fun… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Your waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The reality is that beer still outsells wine and spirits combined, and makes up 60 of all alcoholic beverage occasions. It's important… — Pat McGauley Copy Share Image
I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in… — Robert McCloskey Copy Share Image
Something I've always said is if you think back as an adult to when you were in school, think back who your… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Diet-related illnesses are causing nearly as many deaths as tobacco-related illnesses, not to mention the impact on quality of life when you… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into… — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
I tell adults about the experiences of more than a hundred teachers I've interviewed. They tell me that allowing the child to… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod… — Angela Cartwright Copy Share Image
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I think it's a very stark marker of what kind of president we have that, from all available evidence, Donald Trump has… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
But remember, for all your adult life you'll be a woman. And how you live your life as a woman, all by… — Anne Ortlund Copy Share Image
In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult"… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
I've been with that project [ Sausage Party] since its inception, since they wrote the script. It took them four years to… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
Here's an idea: eat like an adult. Stop eating fast food, stop eating kid's cereal, knock it off with all the sweets… — Dan John Copy Share Image
Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
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This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
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This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We're all grown ups now, if you have a problem with someone you sort it out like adults. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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