Adult Quotes

Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.

I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

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.

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.

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.

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.