Adults Quotes - Page 33

• And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Mother, Wind, Careers

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• The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

  Pete Hamill

  Library, Values

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• If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade. There has been no global warming this century. None

  Mark Steyn

  School, Firsts, Graduates

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• My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying the dire reality we are facing. Leadership can come form anywhere.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Reality, People, Leader

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• You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.

  Terry Rossio

  Decision, Important, Faith In Yourself

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• We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires.
  We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Moving, Catholic, Ego

  Pope Benedict XVI's Homily during a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica before the conclave of cardinals, www.vatican.va. April 18, 2005.

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• The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

  Pablo Picasso

  Laughter, Children, Half

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• Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, People, Insanity

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• Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her.

  Billy Graham

  Children, Years, Parenthood

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• The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Parent, Stubborn

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• The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder about space and time until I was an adult. I then delved more deeply into the problem than any other adult or child would have done.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Space, Giving

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.25, Princeton University Press

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• I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Thinking, Space

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• Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that violence begets even more violence.

  Gong Ji-young

  Children, Violence, Way

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• It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to ever be didactic, but if there’s something I do want to say, it’s that you can bring things around. You can make a change. Adult novels are about letting go. Children’s novels are about getting a grip.

  Tim Wynne-Jones

  Letting Go, Children, Writing

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• I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.

  Justin Timberlake

  Book, Black And White, Self

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• College is such a unique time because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you're exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn't even know how to think until I got to college.

  Anne Hathaway

  Unique, College, Thinking

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

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• I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'

  Natalie Portman

  Teenager, Play, Next

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• With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.

  Richard Dawkins

  Pigs, Abortion, Fetus

  Richard Dawkins‏ @RichardDawkins, twitter.com. March 13, 2013.

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• It's very easy to turn a toy into an adult toy: Location, location, location.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Location

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

  Bill Nye

  Running, Believe, Keys

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• Right from the start my parents had left me to fend for myself. Apparently unaware that I was a kid, they invariably treated me like an adult, perhaps because they themselves were no spring chickens.

  Phyllis Diller

  Spring, Kids, Parent

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.15, Penguin

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• Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.

  Sharon Stone

  Kids, School, Thinking

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• I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

  Andy Rooney

  Summer, Children, Father

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• I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries.

  Willie Aames

  Children, Would Be, Ministry

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• I don't need to prove I'm an adult by being ultra-sexy that's immature

  Aly Michalka

  Sexy, Immature, Needs

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