Adult Life Quotes
105 Adult Life quotes by 96 unique authors
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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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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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When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
— Dave Chappelle
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Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he…
— William James
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As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different…
— Barack Obama
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You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not…
— Robert Breault
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In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother…
— Ann Hood
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If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been no global warming…
— Mark Steyn
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This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your…
— David Foster
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For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.
— Michel'le
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People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at…
— Karl A. Menninger
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Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known previously. It circulated…
— Stephen King
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Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.
— Stephen Mitchell
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The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar. There’s…
— Ted Haggard
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What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.
— Lois Lowry
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Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass thing I’ve done…
— Cheryl Strayed
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The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there…
— Unknown Author
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us,…
— Gaston Bachelard
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When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in…
— Carl Schmitt
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I have inquired for most of my adult life about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent. And I have not…
— Janet Reno
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As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the…
— David Mixner
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For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.
— Alphonso Jackson
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Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control…
— Judith Lewis Herman
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Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that…
— Anthony Storr
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My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only…
— Susan Wiggs
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