Adults Quotes · Page 79

It was a Friday night, she was at a club, and a good-looking man was currently giving her the I-want-to-take-you-home-and-I-hope-I-last-longer-than-five-minutes look… and…

— J. Lynn

If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection…

— Richard Louv

I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the…

— Indira Gandhi

I have a four-and-a-half-year-old and, when she was two and a half, she would make my wife and I do voices, like…

— Judd Apatow

Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average…

— Joel Osteen

I get very concerned when we start hearing people who want to convert this country into a safe place for children. I…

— Judith Krug

A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.

— Anonymous

I've been an athlete all my life. I was a competitive figure skater, and then when I realized skating was not an…

— Condoleezza Rice

As a Catholic, you can have two views on capital punishment. You can think, let Caesar do what Caesar needs to do,…

— Sonia Sotomayor

It's true. somewhere inside us we are all the ages we have ever been. We're the 3 year old who got bit…

— Jonathan Tropper

People love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated…

— Elisabeth Shue

I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a…

— Neil Gaiman

When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I'm working on a young adult novel. I've been working on it for a while, because I don't know how to write…

— Morgan Parker

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills,…

— Eric Hoffer

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

— Karl Kraus

For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by…

— Orson Scott Card

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

— Sheena Easton

The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young…

— Scott O'Dell

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

— Andy Hargreaves

And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in…

— Mark Ruffalo

What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing…

— Julie Burchill

Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on…

— Sam Harris

Im a truly loved kid, and hopefully it will make me a happier adult.

— Clara Mamet

When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an…

— Ben Aaronovitch