Adult Quotes
1513 Adult quotes by 1171 unique authors
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were…
— Drew Barrymore
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I…
— Roseanne Barr
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense,…
— Drew Barrymore
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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 that. And I…
— Mario Batali
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
— Isaiah Berlin
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I think I am an adult.
— Jacqueline Bisset
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What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to…
— Lewis Black
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As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year.
— Elayne Boosler
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Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was…
— Jeff Bridges
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We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We…
— Herb Brooks
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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 their emotions in…
— Julie Burchill
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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.
— Brian Aldiss
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I always say to myself that if I can make a movie that makes a kid smile or gives them some hope or something to…
— Nicolas Cage
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Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked…
— Nicolas Cage
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For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.
— Steve Carell
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then…
— Elias Canetti
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My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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