For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough. — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere that many adults with advanced IQs are often less happy than those who test average.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children. — Donna Shalala Copy Share Image
In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes… — Melissa Gilbert Copy Share Image
That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has… — Cheryl Richardson Copy Share Image
I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There’s no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It’s not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
We're not really sure why it [broken circadian rhythm] continues, but when they become adults, we usually have to treat it because… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material.… — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a human being from a computer? The ability to add up numbers? The ability to understand language? The ability to… — Jonathan Cainer Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
The intricate and different life cycles of both male and female root-heads, and the great behavioral sophistication shown by the female in… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
First, let's look at the importance of the young adult in the cigarette market. In 1960, this young adult market , the… — R. J. Reynolds Copy Share Image
The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue,… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am. — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
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
It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
We've got babies raising babies, and it's important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to… — Alonzo Mourning Copy Share Image
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and… — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their… — Brian Bosworth Copy Share Image
A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
The doll had an adult shaped body, the thing that I had been trying to describe for years, and our guys said… — Ruth Handler Copy Share Image
People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh. — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do? — Ingrid Law Copy Share Image
Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough. — Edmund Wallace Hildick Copy Share Image
![“That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off of the miniseries, and I played Col. Mosby, a very dangerous, Southern colonel in post-Civil War, wandering the West.” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f00/eric-mccormack-2915_adults_that-was-my-big-break-lonesome-dove-my-f_259225.jpg)
![“We're not really sure why it [broken circadian rhythm] continues, but when they become adults, we usually have to treat it because many people need to get up early to go to work and they can't be sleeping until 11:00 or 12:00. So we use treatments like bright light therapy, melatonin, things like…” quote by Shelby Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7da/shelby-harris-10520_adults_we-re-not-really-sure-why-it-broken-circ_173576.jpg)
![“One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a…” quote by Kevin Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d3e/kevin-smith-3887_adults_one-of-the-reasons-i-always-looked-up-to_820516.jpg)
