“I'm sad for adults who want to be children. And children who want to be adults.” WantChildrenAdultsI'm Sad Author:Tim Allen
“The entire time I was following the feelings experienced by children, so the feeling of not understanding what adults say was very important to put the audience in this frequency to understand the world through his eyes.” WorldChildrenImportantFeelingsEyeUnderstandingAudienceAdultsFollowingHis EyesFrequency Author:Alex Abreu
“During the entire process of making this film I never thought about whom I was making it for. I always thought that the film was for me, but I didn't think of any of that. I just did what I thought I had to do. I didn't think, "This is what children are going to think" or "This is what adults will understand."” ThinkingChildrenFilmProcessAdults Author:Alex Abreu
“I feel like, as an adult, a lot of how you feel about yourself and what your inner workings are can be revealed in a sexual situation.” FeelsSituationAdultsAbout YourselfHow You Feel Author:Emmy Rossum
“I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is so insidious, so nefarious, and so deadly that simply by glamorizing it or poisoning our young adults, and I think it's a very separate category, but in no way am I suggesting that we move on from banning smoking in movies to banning drinking, you know, or whatever else we want to do.” ThinkingWayWantCharacterMovingYoungParticularAdultsDrinkingYoung AdultVicesSmokingCategoriesSuggestingPoisoningInsidious Author:Joe Eszterhas
“Literally, walking down that path. I was walking to work and I passed by A.C.T. (American Conservatory Theater) in San Francisco, and they had night education classes for adults. I said, "Yeah, why not?," and walked in, just for the fun of it, to see what it was like.” SaidNightFunClassPathWalkingAdultsTheaterYeahWhy NotSan FranciscoConservatory Author:Tim Kang
“On set, I like to be treated just like a normal adult actor. We all put as much time and effort into our craft as adults, and maybe even more because we have school to do and a lot of things to figure out.” SchoolActorsEffortFiguresNormalAdultsTreatedCrafts Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“Center Stage focused on the drive and what it's like to be a student, and this is what it's like to be an adult and what you need to give up in the pursuit of that passion and that focus.” NeedsGivingPassionFocusStageStudentsGiving UpAdultsFocusedPursuitCenter Stage Author:Amanda Schull
“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.” KnowsAnswersChristianityAdultsDecidedAskingAgnostic Author:Nancy Pearcey
“Christian adults need to think about talking to our own children as a form of cross-cultural missions. Cultural change happens so quickly that teens are exposed to ideas and worldviews very different from those of previous generations.” ThinkingNeedsChildrenIdeasDifferentHappensChristianFormTalkingGenerationsAdultsCrossesMissionsExposedTeensWorldviewPrevious GenerationsCultural Change Author:Nancy Pearcey
“In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They expected to hear stories of broken relationships and wounded feelings. But the top reason given by young adults was that they did not get answers to their questions.” PeopleReasonStoriesFeelingsYoungLeftGivenAnswersStudyDoubtBrokenAdultsAskingResponseYoung AdultExpectedWoundedResearchersUnansweredAsking WhyBroken Relationship Author:Nancy Pearcey
“I guess just personally I've become a bolder person in my day-to-day. I think a lot of it came from moving to Brooklyn. I just sort of became an adult and started speaking up for myself and not apologising for myself.” ThinkingPersonsMovingAdultsDay To DayBrooklynSpeaking UpApologising Author:Fernando Torres
“When you become an adult you just make that transition and you're right... it's fun and exciting to be an adult and exciting to have independence, but once you're out from under the cover of your family's protection and love, you sort of have to take a step back and come to terms with the fact that you won't really ever have that again in the same way. You'll never be a kid again.” WayFactsKidsFunTermStepsLove YouAdultsAnd LoveExcitingIndependenceProtectionTransition Author:Fernando Torres
“Christian music was music that I grew up listening to that I can't say has had much of an impact on anything I have done in my adult life. Maybe Christianity has, but certainly not the bullshit Christian music I was listening to when I was 12. To me there's not much substance in that music. I don't have a message or anything.” I CanDoneChristianChristianityListeningGrewMessagesGrew UpAdultsImpactSubstanceBullshitChristian Music Author:J Tillman
“To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or in the mattress of their bed. Wouldn't it be better if the parents just discussed this with the kids instead of creating this culture of sneaking and dishonesty within the family? The moral of the story being, you don't hide reality from your kids because then they grow up to be smarter, more aware adults.” IfsStoriesRealityKidsYoungCultureGrowsParentBehindsMoralGrowing UpBedCreatingAdultsLettersMirrorsAlbumsAlternativesTeenagerThis DaySmarterDishonestyMattressesTentaclesMoral Of The Story Author:Jello Biafra
“So, I'm 34. I'm kind of becoming an adult - kind of, I guess. But I know that I am because, the other day, I said to somebody, 'Dude, dude, don't - those are the good plates.” KnowsKindSaidBecomingAdultsPlatesBecoming An Adult Author:Greg Behrendt
“The girls I grew up with they're living normal, adult lives. So they call me now and they're like, 'Amy, I'm pregnant.' And I still react like, 'What are you going to do? I'll drive you, I guess.” StillsGirlGrewNormalGrew UpAdultsDrivingCall MePregnantAmy Author:Amy Schumer
“I was at the breakfast table this morning and I read in the newspaper that more and more adults are living at home with their parents. That surprised me, I was like Mom did you read this?” HomeParentMorningMomAdultsTablesNewspapersBreakfast Author:Brian Regan
“So many kids and adults, too, have gotten just about one of the roughest breaks that can happen to a person. We can help these people.” PeoplePersonsHelpingHappensKidsBreakAdults Author:Elvis Presley
“Usually the people that peak in high school are tragic, tragic adults. Most of them end up working for the water department in their hometown and driving around said high school as the decades slip past.” PeopleSaidEndsSchoolPastWaterHigh SchoolAdultsDecadesDrivingDepartmentTragicSlipsHometown Author:Dana Gould
“I think a part of it was the way my parents raised me. I think that's part of being raised in a big Latin family. To get an adult's attention you have to do something crazy, and my way was dancing on tables and singing and dancing. That was my way of getting everyone's attention. I'm loud and I like being loud.” ThinkingWayBigsParentAttentionCrazySingingAdultsTablesDancingRaisedMy WayLoudLatinSinging And DancingDancing On Tables Author:Becky G
“I think Anderson Cooper is an opinionated, hypocritical idiot who should be an adult and keep his opinion to himself.” ThinkingShouldOpinionAdultsIdiotHypocriticalOpinionated Author:Dina Lohan
“Now, as an adult, I appreciate those memories. Mom taught me the importance of compassion for your waitress, your crossing guard, your mailman.” MemoriesCompassionTaughtMomAdultsAppreciateImportanceCrossingsWaitressMailman Author:Cate Edwards
“The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.” FirstsMayChildrenStatesUnitedUnited StatesAdults Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could never hope to support, and this is not the place for me to get out the bilge pump. I will only say that critics who tremble so fiercely at the thought of the voyeuristic male gaze miss the point that distance generates mystery and enchantment, and expresses the awe with which the male imagination regards all women.” ChildrenPoliticalImaginationMoralSupportMysterySubjectsMissingPhotographyAdultsRegardDistanceCriticsMalesAweInvolvingSinkingNudityPumpsEnchantmentDisapproval Author:J. G. Ballard
“Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation.” ThinkingWorldWonderfulMagicJourneyChildhoodAwarenessAdventurePhotographyIllusionAdultsAppearanceTalesManageRealmsFairyFairy TaleToysMultitudesVariationNever EndingSimulationGreat Adventure Author:Luigi Ghirri
“Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.” WorldChildrenHas BeensIdeasSelfLostSocialChildhoodThis WorldExpressionReturnAdultsConcernGardenConnectionsUnitySettingKingdomsSettingsInnocenceParadiseYearningImaginaryExploringDivorcedProjectionExcludedCarelessness Author:Loretta Lux
“What we need now is the greatest generation of young adults in the history of the Church. We need your whole heart and soul. In other words, it's time to raise the bar not only for missionaries but also for returned missionaries and for your entire generation.” NeedsHeartSoulWholeYoungChurchGenerationsAdultsRaisesYoung AdultBarsHeart And SoulRaising The BarGreatest Generation Author:M. Russell Ballard
“If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.” IfsDemocracyTroubleAdultsConstitutionRelationPrivacyAmerican DemocracyRight To Privacy Author:Coretta Scott King
“Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.” WantChildrenAsksAnswersAdultsScaredDare Author:Martha Grimes
“In adults, dependability is the fruit of maturity; in a child, it is the seed.” ChildrenAdultsFruitSeedsMaturityDependability Author:Richard M. Eyre
“...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.” ShouldMindFirstsStillsTwoIdeasPhilosophyAbleAbilitySawsImpossibleExamplePositive ThinkingAdultsTestsFunctionRateDeterminedPositive AttitudeHopelessHopelessnessImprobableKeep A Positive AttitudePositive Mind Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him.” HeartChildrenHandsAdultsSexualityPornographySlap Author:Bernardo Bertolucci
“What we think is, in the adult person, very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to feel. Moreover, what we think is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to feel. In short, the condition of our mind is very much a matter of the direction in which our will is set.” ThinkingFeelsMindPersonsMatterWishConditionsAdults Author:Dallas Willard
“Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-” ProblemIssuesAdults Author:Christian Smith
“People love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the '80s, they got away with some of those too.” PeopleMadeCharacterAdultsComplicated80sOnly Time Author:Elisabeth Shue
“My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do.” PeopleKnowsGivingKidsMotherStuffCrySonAdultsCancerReachingHospitalsReach OutGod KnowsVisiting Author:Mr. T
“Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.” ThinkingMindBitsMastersTerribleAdultsSuicideSurfaceCommitExcellentServantFirearmsLame Author:David Foster Wallace
“It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.” PeopleLibertyTaughtAdultsHypocrisySheerIdleAdolescenceCivil Liberties Author:Edgar Friedenberg
“I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it.” IfsI CanCan DoAcceptingHeardExpressionAdultsCall Me Author:Elvis Presley
“I would hope that wherever Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and Fiona get played is where I'd be played. And right now that seems to be the modern Adult Contemporary market.” SeemsModernRight NowAdultsContemporaryCrow Author:Meredith Brooks
“I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life.” WorldAgeAdults Author:LeAnn Rimes
“I see someone who is an adult now, but when you were a child you actually had a seer anointing and you used to see into the realm of the supernatural. It was the realm of the invisible kingdom of God. You saw things on that dark side and things on God's side and you were put down for your seer ability and so you shut it down.” ChildrenUsedSidesDarkAbilitySawsAdultsInvisibleKingdomsRealmsKingdom Of GodDark SideSeersAnointing Author:Patricia King
“Well, when people ask where I'm from, I usually say the Midwest, because that covers both homes, in a way. Obviously I was born in Omaha, but when people say, "Where do you come from," we'll say Milwaukee. I mean Jennifer was certainly born in Milwaukee, and that's where I spent a big chunk of my adult life, so we usually say we came here from Milwaukee. That's usually how it's referenced is we're from Milwaukee, yeah.” PeopleWayWellsMeanHomeBigsAsksBornAdultsYeahChunksJenniferMidwestOmahaMilwaukee Author:Peter Buffett
“I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada. But all my extended family is American, I've held an American passport and I've spent my whole adult life in between New York and LA. So I feel like an American... and I also feel like a Canadian! I wish more people were dual citizens and then I wouldn't feel like such a freak.” PeopleFeelsWholeWishBornNew YorkIdentityCitizensAdultsIndiaCrisisRaisedCanadaFreakPassportsWhole FamilyIdentity CrisisExtended Family Author:Emily Haines
“I tend to not use the word "socialist," because even though more young adults in the United States in a poll say they support socialism than do capitalism, the word socialism doesn't have a lot of meaning in this country.” CountryStatesUseYoungUnitedUnited StatesSupportAdultsCapitalismYoung AdultSocialismSocialistPolls Author:Cynthia Kauffman
“I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.” WellsStatesCareYoungMotherGirlUnitedQualityUnited StatesMomDaughterAdultsRaisedYoung AdultI CareImprovingQuality Of LifeSingle Mom Author:Valerie Jarrett
“As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed a great interest in a number of different things from how to build a street hot rod from the ground up to quantum mechanics, and those two different kinds of mechanics, and it was really in the sciences, quantum mechanics, molecular biology, I would begin looking at these things looking for ideas, but in fact you don't read it for ideas you read it for curiosity and interest in the subject.” KindTwoIdeasDifferentFactsInterestNumbersTeachStreetsSubjectsAdultsHotCuriosityAll KindsDifferent ThingsBiologyDifferent KindsQuantumMechanicQuantum MechanicsMolecular Biology Author:Dean Koontz
“What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex, layered, and mysterious place and if you stop and think about it the human cell is literally more complex than a fleet of 747s.” IfsThinkingWorldHumansMadeAdultsComplexesMysteriousRealizationCells Author:Dean Koontz
“Adults have been brainwashed into thinking that they can't really learn about computers without being taught, so it's more difficult for them to feel comfortable with a computer. Deep down, I think they're afraid of learning about computers.” ThinkingFeelsHas BeensDifficultTaughtComfortableComputerAdultsDeep DownBrainwashed Author:Seymour Papert