Adults Quotes - Page 31

• Bullying exists because of a lack adult intervention.

  Stuart Green

  Bullying, Intervention

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• Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

  Norman Podhoretz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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• I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable

  Alexander Shulgin

  Spiritual, Marijuana, Government

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• My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?

  Kelly Clarkson

  Mom, Mother, People

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• My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

  Camilla Belle

  Mom, Mother, Growing Up

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become.

  Chris Hadfield

  Life, Motivational, Time

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• The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

  Midge Decter

  Children, Breathing, Hatred

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• When I went into Bobby's World, I had no idea it would be a success. I had been doing the Bobby voice as part of my nightclub adult act for years.

  Howie Mandel

  Success, Congratulations, Years

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• Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Book

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system.

  Robert Ballard

  Kids, Technology, Robots

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• Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

  Olive Schreiner

  Humanity, Gone, Slavery

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• Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

  Blake Clark

  Military, Army, Boys

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• The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while you are still growing into that more beneficial picture.

  Seth Roberts

  Children, Play, Long

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• Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!

  Charles Kelley

  Brother, Growing Up, Hippie

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• Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

  Anderson Cooper

  Children, Emotional, Buying

  "Surviving the real estate game". Details Magazine, edition.cnn.com. August 2005.

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• I believe, very strongly, that it is the responsible, adult, recreational, no apologies necessary, 'it just makes my music more fun,' recreational use of marijuana is a civil liberty.

  Rick Steves

  Fun, Believe, Apology

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• You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.

  Robert Breault

  Tired, Long, Age

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• We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

  W. H. Auden

  Children, Growing Up, Learning

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• Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity... The second fundamental thing is independence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Independent, Law

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• If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

  Barry Lopez

  Inspirational Life, Responsibility, Irony

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.529, Open Road Media

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• You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Life, Friendship, Years

  FaceBook post by Alexander McCall Smith from Jul 15, 2011

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• I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Baby, Reading, Sleep

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• It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.

  Henri Michaux

  Drawing, Desire, World

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• It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

  Norman Lear

  Change, Making A Difference, Desire

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• What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature. We now know that an adult mammalian cell can fire up all the dormant genetic instructions that shut down as it divides and specializes and ages, and thus can become a source of new life. You can outlaw technique; you cannot repeal biology.
  Writing after Wilmut's successful cloning of the sheep, Dolly, that research on the cloning of human beings cannot be suppressed.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Life, Writing, Science

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