I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
Bullying exists because of a lack adult intervention.
The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.
How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?
The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.
The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate amount of romantic attention in adolescence.
Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now be acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and tastes that will sustain them in less materially affluent circumstances. On the other hand, the fresh insights and imaginations of your children may help you find a viable future while there's still time.
It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.
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.
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers.
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it. " I cannot conceive of a greater compliment than that - to write something that as an adult I find satisfying, but also that manages to reach a curious 13- or 14-year-old.
When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. ' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.
On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
I'm not sure I'm adult yet.
To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.
. . . that was Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things to Have a Funner LIfe and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself Number 83. . . If a Adult Tells You Not to Worry, and You Weren't Worried Before, You Better Hurry Up and Start 'Cause You're Already Running Late.
The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?
I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.