Best Adults Quotations
1856 Adults quotes by 1355 unique authors
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When we worship you in the form of bread... we always see you as an adult. But every year at Christmas, you reveal yourself to…
— Chiara Lubich
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When you're growing up your mother says, "Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold." When you become an adult you discover that you have the right…
— Diane Arbus
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Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.
— Richard Dreyfuss
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It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws…
— Lewis Terman
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You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another.…
— Katharine Hepburn
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Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little…
— Mike Ditka
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Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want…
— Robin Williams
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We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see…
— Elise M. Boulding
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Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature adult....Many young teachers…
— Jim Brown
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The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
— Carl Rogers
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When you were a child you had dreams of becoming somebody as an adult. Have you lived up to your dreams?
— Deepak Chopra
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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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The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.
— Pete Hamill
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My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying the…
— Kumi Naidoo
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You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.
— Terry Rossio
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We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
— Pablo Picasso
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Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so…
— Aleister Crowley
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Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that…
— Billy Graham
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The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.
— Robert Breault
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The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder…
— Albert Einstein
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I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that…
— Albert Einstein
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I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the…
— Justin Timberlake
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Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if…
— Unknown Author
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It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to ever…
— Tim Wynne-Jones
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