Adult Quotes

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.

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.

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

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.

Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. Well, that's just not going to happen.