Adults Quotes - Page 2

• I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Kids, Justice, Mind

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• A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

  John Updike

  Inspirational, Patience, Years

  Assorted Prose (1965) "Confessions of a Wild Bore"

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• As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

  Xavier Becerra

  Two, Latino, Diabetes

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• Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia.

  Nathan Deal

  Cells, Blood, Alternatives

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• It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Glowing, Generations, Want

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

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• The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

  Denis Diderot

  Running, Eye, Men

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.

  Milla Jovovich

  Dream, Baby, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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, Children, Return

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months.

  Graham Nelson

  Past, Shoes, Growing

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• Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Children, America, Black

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• The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

  Kenny G

  Nice, Smooth Jazz, Surprise

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

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• Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Children, Differences, Insane

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

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• Kids and adults have sex for many, many reasons... Put out a question box.

  Sue Johanson

  Sex, Kids, Reason

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• Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Population, Today, Young

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• Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

  Randi Weingarten

  May, Republican, These Days

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• I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

  Matt Groening

  Children, Play, Stuff

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• I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!

  Lindsay Lohan

  Girl, Friday, Children

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• Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

  Dr. Seuss

  Children, Childhood, Hell

  "Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel". Book by Thomas Fensch, p. 96, 1997.

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• I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

  Lorna Luft

  Pain, Past, Shadow

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Funny, Stupid, Kids

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• Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

  Cameron Diaz

  Country, Travel, Believe

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• Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

  Martha Beck

  Children, Responsibility, Assuming

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• 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, Children

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• I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.

  Claire Danes

  Kids, Responsibility, Needed

  Interview, www.ign.com. July 01, 2013.

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• My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Mother, Pay

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