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Adult Quotes by Neil Gaiman
- I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.
- As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays,…
- Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.
- Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it…
- I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than than that. They just were. Adult stories never made…
- Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet,…
- I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of…
- She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish…
- She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.
More Adult Quotes
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working,… — Drew Barrymore
- I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to… — Roseanne Barr
- 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,… — Drew Barrymore
- 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
- There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. — Jean Baudrillard
- What is an adult? A child blown up by age. — Simone de Beauvoir
- The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times. — Martha Beck
- Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. — Martha Beck
- Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children… — Martha Beck
- An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. — Pope Benedict XVI