Best Adults Sayings
1856 Adults quotes by 1355 unique authors
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I believe, very strongly, that it is the responsible, adult, recreational, no apologies necessary, 'it just makes my music more fun,' recreational use of marijuana…
— Rick Steves
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Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into…
— Anderson Cooper
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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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We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious…
— Maria Montessori
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If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and…
— Barry Lopez
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You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships…
— Alexander McCall Smith
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I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with…
— Padma Lakshmi
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It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.
— Henri Michaux
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It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world…
— Norman Lear
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Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands…
— Leo Baekeland
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I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in…
— Justin Timberlake
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In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and…
— Richard Dawkins
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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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God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or the older person.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have…
— Tina Fey
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It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not…
— Emmy Rossum
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Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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"Some of the anxiety has been laid to rest. We don't see a spike in adult use. We don't think we see a spike in…
— John Hickenlooper
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When I was fifteen, I remember my mum taking me to the posh clothes shop on London Road to get my first grown-up coat. It…
— Cilla Black
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Even though probably the majority of homosexuals are not oriented towards young people, there is a significant number that are, especially the men...male homosexuality has…
— Scott Lively
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You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can…
— Ezra Koenig
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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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There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire…
— Paul Bartsch
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This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of…
— Unknown Author
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