“ Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas. ”
- Paula Poundstone- Copy
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“ When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. ”
- Brian Aldiss- Copy
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“ We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we are the grown-ups. ”
- Margaret Atwod- Copy
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“ I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it. ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
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“ Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries. ”
- Chris Patten- Copy
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“ As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous. ”
- Dennis Potter- Copy
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“ I HAVE grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up! ”
- Jenny Agutter- Copy
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“ One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. ”
- Randall Jarrell- Copy
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“ My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. ”
- Peter Gay- Copy
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“ Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence. ”
- Nick Price- Copy
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“ A vigorous five mile walk will do more good for an unhappy, but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ”
- Paul Dudley White- Copy
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“ A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. ”
- Thomas Szasz- Copy
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“ For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously. ”
- William Bennett- Copy
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“ Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. ”
- Margaret Atwood- Copy
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“ I've developed a new philosophy… I only dread one day at a time. ”
- Charles M. Schulz- Copy
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“ Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ”
- Thomas Szasz- Copy
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“ Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. ”
- Peter De Vries- Copy
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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- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work. ”
- Mordecai Richler- Copy
- 880
“ You have to be a grownup. You have to decide what government should do and not do. And what's its appropriate size and what's its appropriate scale. ”
- Esther Dyson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults. ”
- Bobby McFerrin- Copy
- 2.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. ”
- Matt Dillon- Copy
- 2.9K
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