Adults Quotes - Page 28

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong.

The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?

How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.

Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.

The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.

Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.

Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.

Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children.

An adult is just a child who started to rot

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed.

It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.

Adult males are what their moms designed them.

There's an element of realism to it. I immersed myself more in the subject as a young adult. Then I started to get involved with a lot of people that were involved in it, and they would just bring me along basically. And I learned and decided that my Christian charity, what I wanted to do to serve God's will, was to help people that were ensnared by the demonic.

I never thought when I was a kid that I would become an adult. I never thought of myself as having any sort of distant horizon. I have sort of leapt without a master plan.

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.

If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.