Adults Quotes

• Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

  Richard Lamm

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

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• The creative adult is the child who has survived.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Creativity, Imagination

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “No Time to Spare: Thinking about what Matters”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Age

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.

  Victoria Pratt

  Missing You, Children, Kids

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• But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Believe, Hands, Choices

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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• Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Food, Humor

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• 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

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Wise

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• To be adult is to be alone.

  Jean Rostand

  Time, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Pens‚es d'un biologiste (Thoughts of a Biologist, 1954) p. 134

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

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Growing Up, Today

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Anita E. Woolfolk "Educational Psychology" (p. 212), 1980.

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• Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

  Michael Reagan

  Boyfriend, Dad, Father

  Michael Reagan, Joe Hyams (1988). “On the outside looking in”, Zebra Books

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• Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

  Virginia Satir

  Inspirational, Teenage, People

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• 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.

  O. J. Simpson

  Sports, Fighting, Nicole

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

  Thomas Szasz

  Funny, Happiness, Wisdom

  The Second Sin "Emotions" (1973)

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• Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

  Lily Tomlin

  Country, Honesty, Work

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• I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

  Gore Vidal

  Witty, Sex, Funny Sex

  Quoted in Sunday Times Magazine, 16 Sept. 1973

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• The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

  Peter De Vries

  Inspirational, Marriage, Children

  Tunnel of Love (1954) ch. 8

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• It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Writing, Criticism

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• 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.

  Andrew Wiles

  Mean, Privilege, Imagine

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• Adults are only kids grown up

  Walt Disney

  Kids

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• A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does

  Lewis Blaine Hershey

  Inspirational, Children, Teenage

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• But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

  Shia LaBeouf

  People, Acting, Different

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• The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love, Children, Crazy

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• Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

  Grace Metalious

  Girlfriend, Sex, Glasses

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas

  Paula Poundstone

  Children, Growing Up, Kids

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