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“I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.”

Knows Facts Care Fighting Office Adults Tough Lifetime Know Me I Care Tenure

Author:Bev Perdue

“For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Long Kids Age Fighting Felt Parent Prove Long Time Adults Treated Peers Cocky Savvy

Author:Ezra Miller

“I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.”

Fighting Adults Standing

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Most people are really fighting to not be adults. And, when it happens, it's a big transition. And a lot of that is just awful. It's awful to have to get a job and really be responsible for other people. And it is funny, too. Like, we're all kind of little idiot kids trying to act like we know what we are doing.”

People Knows Trying Kind Littles Bigs Happens Kids Jobs Fighting Adults Responsible All Kinds Awful Idiot Transition Being Responsible

Author:Judd Apatow

“I have spent almost my entire adult life fighting to defend the religious liberty of every American to follow his or her faith and live according to his conscience.”

Fighting Religious Liberty Conscience Adults Religious Liberty

Author:Ted Cruz

“I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!”

Thinking Looks Children Use Fighting Language Teach Adults Solve Bites Disputes

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“Girls . . . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . . . Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh, fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about who was dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dolls, creating complex family groups and learning how to solve problems through negotiation and roleplaying. Which gender is better equipped, on the whole, to live an adult life, would you guess?”

Made War Reason Play Whole Problem Girl Fighting House Boys Groups Creating Gun Adults Complexes Gender Solve Arguing Ran Toys Yards Negotiation Dolls Toy Guns

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Very early in our children's lives we will be forced to realize that the "perfect" untroubled life we'd like for them is just a fantasy. In daily living, tears and fights and doing things we don't want to do are all part of our human ways of developing into adults.”

Way Want Humans Children Fighting Realizing Perfect Fantasy Tears Adults Our Children Developing Torn Daily Living

Author:Fred Rogers

“Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both feet on the ground. Some who have stumbled and bumbled through childhood suddenly burst into bloom. Most shake, steady themselves, zigzag, fight, retreat, pick up, take new bearings, and finally find their own true balance.”

World Children Fighting Grows Feet Land Childhood Balance Picks Adults Shakes Steady Adolescence Retreat Ripple Feet On The Ground

Author:Stella Chess

“Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap.”

Ifs World Should Children Made Two Kids Film Fighting Evil Darkness Strange Scene Creatures Adults Scary Monsters Forests Dawn Villain Naps Curls Benign Darkness Before The Dawn

Author:Roger Ebert

“Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid style in American politics. He is the un-Edwards and un-Huckabee - an adult aiming to reform the real world rather than an adolescent fantasizing mock-heroic 'fights' against fictitious villains in a left-wing cartoon version of this country.”

“Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for the zoo trade must often kill all the adults in the family to capture the baby.”

May Fighting Baby Adults Trade Seeking Capture Infant Zoos Gorillas Poachers

Book:Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas

Source: Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas

“I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.”

Fighting Sports Adults Nicole

Author:O. J. Simpson

“I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.”

Men Different Fighting Equal Men And Women Adults Grants Indifferent

Author:Elie Wiesel

“She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.”

Children Fighting Winning Adults

Author:Neil Gaiman