Adults Quotes

• Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

  Richard Lamm

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

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• The creative adult is the child who has survived.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Creativity, Imagination

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “No Time to Spare: Thinking about what Matters”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

  Guy Laliberte

  Dream, Children, Opportunity

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• Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Age

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Fashion, Doe

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• Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Food, Humor

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• I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

  Penelope Cruz

  Being Happy, Girlfriend, Being Single

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• The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

  Denis Diderot

  Running, Eye, Men

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

  Sheena Easton

  United States, Half, States

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• Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.

  Temple Grandin

  Baby, Hurt, Animal

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

  Matt Groening

  Book, Kids, Fiction

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• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Choices, Insecurity, Individual

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• Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

  Mandy Moore

  Numbers, Who I Am, Age

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• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  Barack Obama

  Presidential, Political, Needs

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• One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

  George Orwell

  Love, Children, Return

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Glowing, Generations, Want

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

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• I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

  Robert Smith

  Way, Photograph, Found

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• I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.

  Jon Stewart

  Hilarious, Character, Body

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• I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life.

  Sharon Stone

  Breasts

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• A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

  John Updike

  Inspirational, Patience, Years

  Assorted Prose (1965) "Confessions of a Wild Bore"

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• You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.

  Maxim Gorky

  Children, Writing, Way

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• Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.

  Walt Disney

  Motivational, Children, Growing Up

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• At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.

  Milla Jovovich

  Dream, Baby, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

  William Steig

  Children, Book, Writing

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