Adults Quotes - Page 2

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

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.

The system concedes nothing without demand, for it formulates its very method of operation on the basis that the ignorant will learn to know, the child will grow into an adult and therefore demands will begin to be made. It gears itself to resist demands in whatever way it sees fit.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

An adult male weighs at least 200 pounds

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child, unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence.

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all rolled into one.

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

Don`t let life randomly kick you into the adult you don`t want to become

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber.

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.