Adult Quotes - page 3

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child. (Nigella Lawson)
A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect. View quote
Bel Kaufman
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love - the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless. View quote
Dean Koontz
To be adult is to be alone. View quote
Jean Rostand
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence. View quote
Daniel Goleman
We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Now, I meant to talk about something else earlier on, and I've forgotten what it was. I've remembered what it is again, but I've also forgotten. And that's really what adult life is like most of the time. View quote
Dylan Moran
The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hallucination. Not one of those aims, not even the aim of giving every adult a vote, has been realized. It has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. (H. L. Mencken)
With respect to those meanings of "human" that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig. View quote
Richard Dawkins
The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage. View quote
Roger Scruton
I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all! View quote
Lindsay Lohan
The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness. View quote
Derren Brown
From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only adult toil, the furrow of fate in the palm. Only toil, Nothing more. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it. View quote
Nick Bostrom
The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar. There's a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it for all of my adult life. View quote
Ted Haggard
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it was a referendum on boys kissing. I didn't know that, nobody.. told me that. But when homophobia trumps terrorism in America, wow. This country needs to get laid. View quote
Bill Maher
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. (Laurence Olivier)
Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible. View quote
John D. MacDonald
I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life. View quote
Sharon Stone
The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being? View quote
John Green (author)
Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky