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Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
I think I am an adult.
I think the word is adult!
I'm not sure I'm adult yet.
To be adult is to be alone.
Adults are obsolete children.
I don't need adult supervision.
I'm generally intimidated by adults.
I just do very old man, adult things.
Adults under threat feel like children.
Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.
Kids like classic rock, and so do adults.
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.
All my adult life people have been helping me.
As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.
Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.
Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.
The only thing an adult can give a child is time.
I was an awful child. And now I'm an awful adult.
Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.
I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life.
Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.
My mother and I always had full adult communication.
Adults don't have the opportunity to pretend anymore.
For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.
But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.
Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
A good book written for children can be read by adults.
I've spent my adult life in the national security realm.
I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.
Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.
It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.
A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.
My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
I wouldn't have voted to prosecute 13-year-olds as adults.
And, as an adult, I tried skiing, and I ended up in tears.
Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.
Good jobs look a lot like kids playing and adults working.
Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.
I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.
You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.
I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.
Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.
