Our Adult Quotes
13 Our Adult quotes by 13 unique authors
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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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I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate…
— Maurice Sendak
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We are afraid that our adult sexuality will somehow damage our kids, that it’s inappropriate or dangerous. But whom are we protecting? Children who see…
— Esther Perel
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Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?
— Baden Powell de Aquino
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Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.
— Pete McCloskey
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Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.
— Frederick Lenz
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Many people's unhappiness is rooted in the habitual role they play. While our family role may have made sense growing up, it often wreaks havoc…
— Lauren Mackler
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And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised…
— Jane Yolen
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Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break…
— Jonathan Lethem
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We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather…
— Heidi Julavits
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To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Kerri and I met at theatre camp when were 16 years old, which is pretty lame. The rest of us met when we founded the…
— Thomas Lennon
Who Wrote These Our Adult Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Our Adult Quotes as follows: