Adults Quotes - Page 17

In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness.

Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.

Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

I see someone who is an adult now, but when you were a child you actually had a seer anointing and you used to see into the realm of the supernatural. It was the realm of the invisible kingdom of God. You saw things on that dark side and things on God's side and you were put down for your seer ability and so you shut it down.

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

I'm not a scientist, I was not a good science student, I felt effectively alienated from science throughout my young life, and it was only when I became an adult that I began to really appreciate from a completely different angle the power of science.

Well, there are two kinds of stem cells: adult stem cells, which you can get from any part of a grown body, and embryonic stem cells. These are the inner- core of days-old embryos that can develop into any kind of cell.

I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid.

For the First Time in My Adult Lifetime, I'm Really Proud of My Country

If you want to be treated like adults then start acting like them.

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

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.

I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know.