Adults Quotes - Page 13

I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.

Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.

To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.

Until you can intelligently articulate the other side's position, you are not an adult. You are a liberal.

Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

But when adults speak up for the vulnerable and the weak, working and demanding that safety and respect prevail, God's little lambs are protected and nourished. They know they are not abandoned; they are loved. And the world becomes a little more like heaven as a result.

From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.

We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.

Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have.

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

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema!

I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.

Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.

Successful adult relationships, whether between lovers or friends, require a significant degree of vulnerability, trust, and openness-

Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.

Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an adult in the world.

Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

Cheese. The adult form of milk.

I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

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