Adult Quotes

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. Lewis

Strange, Fact, Talking

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou

Respect, Character, Struggle

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
Joe Manchin

Family, Teacher, Friend

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.
P. J. O'Rourke

Health, Great, Mind

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
Clint Eastwood

Society, Children, Reason

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud

Between, Child, Average

What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama

Needs, Washington

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.
Michelle Obama

Change, Time, Moving

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.
Johnny Depp

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells

Time, Future, Human

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.
Paul Dudley White

Good, Unhappy, Walk

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

Love, Another, Child

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.
Alden Nowlan

Wise, Child, Himself

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell

Age, True, Feelings

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Margaret Mead

Today, Children, Tomorrow

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead

Parents, Long, Lost

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
Marilyn Manson

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.
Fran Lebowitz

Experience, Child, Company

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.
J. K. Rowling

Writing, Old, Keep

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.
Temple Grandin

Hurt, Same, Research

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
Simone de Beauvoir

Age, Child, Blown

All my adult life people have been helping me.
Stephen Hawking

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.
Marilyn Manson

Change, Someone, Lost

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Jean Baudrillard

Funny, Revenge, Children

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
Rollo May

Death, Live, Human

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
Pope Benedict XVI

Faith, Fashion, Follow

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
Stephen Fry

Daily, Human, Means

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

Wrong, Child, Becomes

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.
David Frost

Love, Night, Sick

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood

Age, Else, Another

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