Quotes and Sayings About Adults
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Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.
-- Adam Fletcher -
The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as asults, to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
-- Adam Phillips -
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A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.
-- Adora Svitak -
The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.
-- Adora SvitakSource : "12-year-old author: Don't say 'childish'" by John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. April 15, 2010.
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The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.
-- Adora Svitak -
I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.
-- Agyness Deyn -
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The 2.5 billion adults [around the world] without access to financial services are disproportionately women and young people. There are at least 44 million unbanked or underbanked people in the United States, so clearly financial inclusion is needed in all markets.
-- Ajaypal Singh Banga -
When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
-- Alan Cumming -
Even if there was such a thing as a half-price sale at the local Ming outlet shop, she would have to work ten lifetimes to make up such a sum. Always supposing that it wasn't one of a kind. Panic was no longer merely rearing. It was thundering through her at full throttle. There was only one thing to be done, she realized. The mature, responsible, adult thing to do. Hide the evidence.
-- Alexandra Ivy -
I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.
-- Alice EnglertSource : "Alice Englert Talks BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, Getting the Southern Accent Right, and TWILIGHT Comparisons". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.
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Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.
-- Alice Miller -
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
-- Alison Bechdel -
Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.
-- Alison Gopnik -
You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'...You can't have it both ways.
-- Ally Carter -
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For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.
-- Alphonso Jackson -
I don't need to prove I'm an adult by being ultra-sexy that's immature
-- Aly Michalka -
I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would.
-- Amber BensonSource : "Amber Benson: From vampires to 'Among the Ghosts'" by Louis Peitzman, www.sfgate.com. October 21, 2010.
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According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.
-- Amy Winehouse -
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 -
When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.
-- Anderson CooperSource : Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.
-- Andre Breton -
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There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
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Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes.
-- Andrew Weil -
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
-- Andrew WilesSource : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
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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 WilesSource : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
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On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.
-- Andrzej Wajda -
Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.
-- Andrzej Wajda