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Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.'
The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.
We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.
Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex.
In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.
Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.
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.
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.
Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.
Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.
The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.
Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.
I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.
Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You've got to do something. Show us what you have.
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.
The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.
I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.
I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.
The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.
The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.
Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.
If you treat people like adults they will act like adults, but if you treat them like children they will act like children.
Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.
The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.
I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.
This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.
Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.
The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe
The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.
How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!
When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within reason.
If you have an opinion on what other adults do consensually with other adults when they take their pants off, you're a weirdo.
He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself.
We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.
I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.
The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.