Adult Quotes

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

If you have parents with a healthy relationship, you don't learn that you don't have to be married. I thought being a healthy adult meant you had to have a spouse. I didn't know any different.

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 bit on the sweets and things like that.

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

The only thing an adult can give a child is time.

I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.