Adult World Quotes
23 Adult World quotes by 23 unique authors
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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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The best thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent.
— Rosecrans Baldwin
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Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary. But in the…
— Ethan Gilsdorf
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I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult…
— Chris Burden
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Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt…
— Celia Green
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Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given.…
— Conrad Hyers
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I like getting to be in the adult world a little bit and then getting to be in the mom world and cook dinners. And,…
— Keri Russell
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As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents…
— Angela Cartwright
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There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a…
— Sherman Alexie
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I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.
— Shirley Henderson
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Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head…
— Rian Johnson
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I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind…
— Agyness Deyn
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I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often…
— Sophie Marceau
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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
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Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors…
— Michael Morpurgo
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When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world…
— Vivienne Westwood
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I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole…
— Peter Cameron
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The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with…
— David Foster Wallace
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It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to…
— Timothy B. Tyson
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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…
— Neil Gaiman
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Siblings are the guarantors that the private childhood world - so unlike the adult world that scientists are only just beginning to understand it -…
— Alison Gopnik
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Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry…
— Ruth Handler
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Filming is a very adult world, and you need to be with people your own age.
— Georgie Henley
Who Wrote These Adult World Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 23 Adult World Quotes as follows: