Adults Quotes - Page 36

My first work in comics had an Adult theme and I had to create a nom du plume to separate that work and my Children's entertainment.

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?

When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then I started getting more up to date.

An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.

Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes, are to any of us.

Either you participate in the community like an adult or you leave and do your own thing.

Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

Kids want nothing more than for all the important adults in their life to get along.

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

I think the word is adult!

As you become an adult and start to make your way in life, you realize how much your friends are your family - though you get to make fun of your friends, too.

I'm still trying to be a kid. I really don't want to feel like an adult.

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.

Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.

I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults.

Babies breathe a lot more rapidly than adults do, and what's more, they're also growing quickly and so they're absorbing lots more into the body and they're more fragile in terms of development and so on.