Adults Quotes - Page 19

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

A little bit of laughter and an occasional adult beverage never hurt nobody.

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

I feel like, as an adult, a lot of how you feel about yourself and what your inner workings are can be revealed in a sexual situation.

I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it.

If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?

When adults wage war, children perish.

Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

If you treat people like adults they will act like adults, but if you treat them like children they will act like children.

Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.'

To be adult in relationship is not to be conflict-free, it's to resolve conflicts mindfully.

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.

Separation is where you see if it works better with the adults in two different homes.

Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love.

A lot of the clothes out are very adult-driven and it would be cool if they were a little bit more fun and trendy. Clothes should be fun.

Dare to be the adults we want our children to be.

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn't there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?

I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.