Adult Quotes

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. (Thomas Szasz)
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. View quote
Jean Kerr
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine. View quote
Andrew Wiles
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream. View quote
Andrew Wiles
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. View quote
H. G. Wells
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. View quote
Denis Diderot
What is an adult? A child blown up by age. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. View quote
Alden Nowlan
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. View quote
Margaret Mead
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. (George Orwell)
It's good to be 18. For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult. View quote
Ezra Miller
What Washington needs is adult supervision. View quote
Barack Obama
The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times. View quote
Martha Beck
Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. View quote
Martha Beck
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever. View quote
Amy Bloom
I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now. View quote
Amy Chua
I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries. View quote
Nathan Deal
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. View quote
Mike Pence
I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part. View quote
O. J. Simpson
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. View quote
Paul Dudley White