Adults Quotes - Page 4

• We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

  King Hussein I

  Truth, Mistake, Dark

  "Remarks during a conference of Arab chiefs of state". The New York Times, p. 6, August 31, 1967.

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• Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

  Philip Kaufman

  Thinking, Europe, America

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

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• I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

  James McGreevey

  Men, Affair, Engaged

  Resignation Address, delivered 12 August 2004

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• Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them.

  Jim Rohn

  Relationship, Kids, Ants

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 15, 2016

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• Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

  George Orwell

  Time, Children, Humorous

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Inspirational, Children, Issues

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.51, Vintage

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• Adults are obsolete children.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Children, Educational

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

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• I often meet adults in their 30s, 40s, or 50s who, as soon as they recognize me, suddenly become six years old again.

  Clayton Moore

  Years, Six Year Olds, Six

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• The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

  Jean Kerr

  Inspirational, Good Morning, Average

  Please Don't Eat the Daisies

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• Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

  James P. Hogan

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  James P. Hogan (2007). “The Two Worlds”, p.360, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Writing, Philadelphia

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• When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

  Alison Bechdel

  Growing Up, Book, Starting

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• I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

  Rick Derringer

  Really Long

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

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• At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.

  Margaret Mahy

  Children, Stage, Young

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• I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Different, Shy, Research

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• The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe

  Alice Hoffman

  Kids, Knows, Happenings

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• Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

  James Woods

  Running, Country, Kids

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• As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

  Dennis Potter

  People, Enough, Callous

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• They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.

  Jay London

  Euthanasia, Said, Concerned

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• Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.

  Clayton Christensen

  Christian, Children, Community

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• I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now.

  Ned Beatty

  Children, Blessed, Eight

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• Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

  Jennifer Dunn

  Practice, Paying Taxes, Debt

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• I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.

  Todd McFarlane

  Artist, Guy, Creepy

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• I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

  Rebecca Miller

  Children, Animal, Thinking

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• The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

  Georges Pompidou

  Students, Dangerous, Riot

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