Adults Quotes - Page 8

I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him.

Evolution is a fairy tale for adults

A good book written for children can be read by adults

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

The new concept of the child as equal and the new integration of children into adult life has helped bring about a gradual but certain erosion of these boundaries that once separated the world of children from the word of adults, boundaries that allowed adults to treat children differently than they treated other adults because they understood that children are different.

Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.

The PS3 will instill discipline in our children and adults alike. Everyone will know discipline.

If you can help a child, you don't have to spend years repairing an adult.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see; he remembers what does not seem wholly possible. Inattentive learner in the schoolroom of life, he keeps some faculty free to veer and wander. His is the roving eye.

I was wearing my best Gap turtleneck and my dates were two adult lesbians, so yea, I was pretty cool.

Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.

'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.

Young persons, because of their immaturity, may not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions and should therefore benefit from less severe sanctions than adults. More importantly, it reflects the firm belief that young persons are more susceptible to change, and thus have a greater potential for rehabilitation than adults.

People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.

A relationship is an imaginative act, it's an act of creation. Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between a person and a kid is unconditional; but the relationship between adults, to each other, is conditional, in a sense. But that condition can be the best kind.

Kids audience is a brilliant audience. If you've got an audience of adults standing up and clapping, or you've got an audience of kids standing up and clapping, I know which one I'd choose.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.

Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction.