Top Adults Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Adults quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Kelly Corrigan
I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.
- Kelly Corrigan
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Image of Robert Nozick
The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.
- Robert Nozick
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Image of Leslie Nielsen
I'm sure that we can handle this situation maturely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr... Poopy Pants?
- Leslie Nielsen
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Image of Tracee Ellis Ross
I've always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.
- Tracee Ellis Ross
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Image of Yehuda Berg
The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
- Yehuda Berg
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Image of S.J. Watson
I am an adult, but a damaged one.
- S.J. Watson
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Image of Obert Skye
I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.
- Obert Skye
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Image of Rob Delaney
If you have an opinion on what other adults do consensually with other adults when they take their pants off, you're a weirdo.
- Rob Delaney
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Image of Brooke Fraser
At sixteen I was like: "I need to get an album out now!" - even though I was only sixteen. I was always in a little bit of a rush to be an adult.
- Brooke Fraser
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Image of Natalia Ginzburg
We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.
- Natalia Ginzburg
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Image of Don Kates
The 'militia' was the entire adult male citizenry, who were not simply allowed to keep their own arms, but affirmatively required to do so.
- Don Kates
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Image of Victor Frederick Weisskopf
Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have.
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf
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Image of Raymond Loewy
The adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast a departure from what they have been conditioned into accepting as the norm.
- Raymond Loewy
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Image of Santiago Ramon y Cajal
In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.
- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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Image of Jay London
They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.
- Jay London
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Image of Raj Chetty
We don’t really care about test scores. We care about adult outcomes.
- Raj Chetty
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Image of Mark Rippetoe
An adult male weighs at least 200 pounds
- Mark Rippetoe
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Image of Gavin McInnes
Once I sold my shares and figured I wanted to get out of the magazine business it was like, "Now I can do whatever I want, anything I want in the world." And I guess I subconsciously hoped it would be something a little more adult. But I just want to do funny shorts, and TV is the ultimate endpoint for that.
- Gavin McInnes
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Image of Paul Lemoine
Evolution is a fairy tale for adults
- Paul Lemoine
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Image of Mara Wilson
I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted.
- Mara Wilson
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Image of David Richo
To be adult in relationship is not to be conflict-free, it's to resolve conflicts mindfully.
- David Richo
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Image of Maureen Howard
None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.
- Maureen Howard
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Image of Aaron Swartz
The adults were completely wrong.
- Aaron Swartz
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Image of Tina Fey
...nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.
- Tina Fey
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Image of Chris Hogan
Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.
- Chris Hogan
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Image of Lauren Groff
It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.
- Lauren Groff
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Image of Craig Stone
When we’re young nothing offends us, except adults telling us what should. Then when we become adults, nothing offends us, except we are offended on behalf of our young.
- Craig Stone
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Image of William Golding
We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
- William Golding
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Image of Chris Hadfield
Don`t let life randomly kick you into the adult you don`t want to become
- Chris Hadfield
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Image of Jon Hamm
Part of being an adult is treating women like women.
- Jon Hamm
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Image of Lala Lajpat Rai
If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all
- Lala Lajpat Rai
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Image of Curtis W. Fentress
There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults
- Curtis W. Fentress
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Image of Joichi Ito
In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.
- Joichi Ito
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Image of Erik Larson
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.
- Erik Larson
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Image of Zoe Leonard
I was really poor for most of my adult life.
- Zoe Leonard
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Image of Wendy Mogel
If we want to raise young adults who know how to solve problems, we must let them have problems to solve while they are still adolescents.
- Wendy Mogel
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Image of Eric Harvey
All employees... deserve to be treated as responsible adults, if that is the behavior we expect of them.
- Eric Harvey
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Image of Jeanette Winterson
Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.
- Jeanette Winterson
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Image of Miguel Angel Ruiz
What has happened to the adult human?
- Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Image of Kristen Stewart
You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.
- Kristen Stewart
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Image of Ambrose Bierce
PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Image of Haruki Murakami
At times like this, adults need a drink
- Haruki Murakami
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Image of Hayao Miyazaki
The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
- Hayao Miyazaki
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Image of Brandon Mull
Then I'm going?" Kendra asked. The adults in the room exchanged tacit glances before nodding. Then we only have one more problem left to discuss," Seth said. Everyone turned to him. How do I get invited
- Brandon Mull
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Image of Bertrand Russell
The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of Ingrid Newkirk
Everything we do is based at adults.
- Ingrid Newkirk
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Image of Philip Pullman
The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.
- Philip Pullman
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Image of Bruce Springsteen
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.
- Bruce Springsteen
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Image of Maria Montessori
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.
- Maria Montessori
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Image of Nancy Pearcey
I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.
- Nancy Pearcey
Collection: Adults