Adulthood Quotes

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. Thomas S. Szasz Quotes Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. Dr. Seuss Quotes What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. Sigmund Freud Quotes Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. H. G. Wells Quotes If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in adult life Susanna Miller Quotes To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas Paula Poundstone Quotes The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. Margaret Mead Quotes I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Albert Einstein Quotes Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that. Walt Disney Quotes When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. Brian W. Aldiss Quotes Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? Erich Fromm Quotes In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. Socrates Quotes What is an adult? A child blown up by age. Simone de Beauvoir Quotes The adult looks to deed, the child to love Hindustani Proverb Quotes The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons Rabindranath Tagore Quotes If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in Rachel Carson Quotes Adults are obsolete children. Dr. Seuss Quotes Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed. Erma Bombeck Quotes Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards George Orwell Quotes I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. Fran Lebowitz Quotes Children aren't dogs; adults aren't gods Haitian Proverb Quotes We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it." Sydney J. Harris Quotes If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business Ronald Reagan Quotes If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. P. J. O'Rourke Quotes Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in Mark Twain Quotes Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. Lily Tomlin Quotes I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were Clueless goobers. Dave Barry Quotes Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. G. K. Chesterton Quotes I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. Helen Keller Quotes Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light, or Abraham Maslow Quotes Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age Walter Savage Landor Quotes When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that. Diane Arbus Quotes It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that. Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. John Updike Quotes The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. Margaret Mead Quotes Where do babies come from? Don't bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation have yielded fruitful, if tentative, results. There are several theories. Near as we can figure out, it has something to do with acting ridiculous in the dark. We believe it is similar to dogs when they act peculiar and ride each other. This is called "making love". Careful study of popular song lyrics, advertising catch-lines, TV sitcoms, movies, and T-Shirt inscriptions offers us significant clues as to its nature. Apparently it makes grown-ups insipid and insane. Some Graffiti was once observed that said "sex is good". All available evidence, however, points to the contrary. Matt Groening Quotes Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural George Bernard Shaw Quotes The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood. Germaine Greer Quotes In the next 10 years I see this wave of donor-conceived children cresting at adolescence or young adulthood and I think they're going to start demanding change, ... It's their right as human beings to know their genetic heritage. Wendy Kramer Quotes In the next 10 years I see this wave of donor-conceived children cresting at adolescence or young adulthood and I think they're going to start demanding change. It's their right as human beings to know their genetic heritage. Wendy Kramer Quotes Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse are leading contributors to preventable death in the United States. By early adulthood, a large proportion of Americans smoke, are overweight, and drink alcohol to excess. Duane Alexander Quotes Since weight gain in adolescence has been associated with a number of health problems in adulthood, we wanted to find a program that could offer teens an effective weight-loss strategy. Elissa Jelalian Quotes It's strictly the schoolboy syndrome [and] seems to last well into adulthood. Elliott Carroll Quotes Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. Gore Vidal Quotes By the time people reach adulthood, they really don't want to have acne. Kristine Romine Quotes When I was a kid…I liked burning ants with a magnifying glass….but I think that progressed into adulthood where I now believe in aliens. Lee Ryan Quotes Given the experiences he had, for him to reach adulthood and be pretty well adjusted and be thought of almost universally as a pretty nice and graceful guy, that is not a bad accomplishment, Michael Beschloss Quotes If we can create habits at a young age, these habits will carry into adulthood. Brad Johnson Quotes When do we reach adulthood? It might be much later than we traditionally think. Craig Bennett Quotes Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence. Uwe Reinhardt Quotes The data is pretty extensive that pre-school training produces markedly increased earning ability when those children reach adulthood. Greg Duncan Quotes The baby boomers have acquired more wealth than any previous generation. Now their children are moving into adulthood, and they're looking to their parents for help in buying a home. And they're getting it. Jim Gillespie Quotes They also work with kids who aren't necessarily expected to live into adulthood. Necessarily is an important word. Joan Smith Quotes We were going to live. We were going to grow up to adulthood after all. Paul Fussell Quotes It used to be thought that brain development ended in young adulthood, but now we know (it) continues throughout life. I think George would agree that it doesn't stop in the 50s. It's just overtaken by the negative effects of aging, so that the net effect is mental decline after that age. Paul Thompson Quotes People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme. John Scott Quotes Fostering communication with a child promotes positive self-esteem and leads to a continuing relationship in adolescence and into adulthood. Nancy Kelly Quotes By the time people reach adulthood, they really don't want to have acne. In adolescence, everybody seems to have acne. My adult patients look around and say, 'I'm the only one who's breaking out. Kristine Romine Quotes The majority are surviving their illnesses and going on into adulthood. Brent Goodrich Quotes