Adults Quotes - Page 40

Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

What is a child?" he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves.

Growing up, there were a lot of funerals that I attended, and the adults at the funerals went out of their way to make sure that I wasn't traumatized or overly depressed by them. So death is always a celebration of life for me, and it's also hugely dramatic.

One day I got to meet him because he was teaching Broadway dance. It was a little after Tap came out and he was very young. He wouldn't remember me, but it was quite amazing. And now I've met him as an adult!

This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.

It was actually what my dad did and with the Muppets, the years with the Muppets, it was really all targeted to adults. It was in a time when everything had to be safe for the whole family. But he was targeting adults.

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Then I'm going?" Kendra asked. The adults in the room exchanged tacit glances before nodding. Then we only have one more problem left to discuss," Seth said. Everyone turned to him. How do I get invited

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.

I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal.

Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her.

Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.

I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know.

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.

Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.