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The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up.
Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.
An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.
A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.
Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from other adults.
People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?
I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.
I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.
I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness.
A lot of the clothes out are very adult-driven and it would be cool if they were a little bit more fun and trendy. Clothes should be fun.
Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned.
Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldnt do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, Wow, they never told me no!
I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.
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.
The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.
Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.
From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.
The 'militia' was the entire adult male citizenry, who were not simply allowed to keep their own arms, but affirmatively required to do so.
If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.
Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an adult in the world.
If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.
Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.
There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.
Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.
It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
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.
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.
I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.
Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.
For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-
As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.
Your waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not just aim for the destination.
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.
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
I suspect that someday in a world with legal marijuana for adults, you will probably have branding that occurs for different types of the product.
Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.
Let me tell you something: for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.
Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.
When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.