“What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.” PeopleTogetherYoungChurchLike YouAdultsYoung Adult Author:Beth Moore
“Here's an idea: eat like an adult. Stop eating fast food, stop eating kid's cereal, knock it off with all the sweets and comfort foods, and ease up on the snacking. And don't act like you don't know this: eat more vegetables and fruits. Really, how difficult is this? Stop with the whining. Stop with the excuses. Act like an adult and stop eating like a television commercial. Grow up.” KnowsIdeasKidsGrowsDifficultGrowing UpTelevisionSweetLike YouComfortEatingAdultsFruitExcuseEaseVegetablesFast FoodWhiningCerealComfort FoodTelevision CommercialsEating Fast Food Author:Dan John
“You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindChildrenTwoHardWholeWould BeTurnsAnimalChildhoodLike YouCreaturesAdultsAll KindsMessSubstanceHopelessSplitsSurvivedCandyTurmoilHandyLavaUncomplicatedSeethingHard Candy Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.” PeopleKindLittlesBitsResponsibilityHeardLike YouBecomingLittle BitAdultsResponsibleBillsAdulthoodScrewsEarly 20sBecoming An Adult Author:Dan Byrd
“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.” WantFeelsReasonStudentsLike YouAdults Author:Simon Pegg
“Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.” MenWayI CanDifferentWalksMissingLike YouOne DayNormalAdultsWake UpTrainLegsDifferent WaysShopping Author:John Darnielle
“One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me.” WorldLongStillsReasonJobsGuyRolesWiseLike YouTypeLong TimeModelsAdultsPressureBillsOddRole ModelsGrandfatherLong Time AgoYour Best Friend Author:Kevin Smith
“People just like the thrill of anything. Dangerous things and dark things are exciting. Like as a kid, I knew I wasn't going to get killed if I went into the Haunted House but you kind of feel like you are. And when it comes out the track the other side, it's like, "we're still alive"! And I find it really funny when adults get really scared because I've not been really scared since I saw Jaws when I was a little kid. I just think people like the thrill of it, they like to feel like they accomplished something, that they survived the movie.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsKindLittlesStillsKidsHouseSidesDarkSawsAliveDangerousLike YouAdultsExcitingTrackScaredAccomplishedSurvivedThrillLittle KidGet RealDangerous ThingsDark ThingsHaunted Houses Author:Rob Zombie
“I felt a gravitational pull to the material so that there's a certain element of acting that's not really necessary. I've really liked this in foreign movies before or I've observed others working with them and I've noticed that there's a method that goes on where the actors try and get the children, like the child actor, to interact with them in a real way. It seems like you're the adult trying to get the kid to fall in love with him.” WayTryingChildrenRealSeemsKidsCertainFallActorsFeltActingMaterialsLike YouGoes OnElementsAdultsMethodFalling In LoveChild Actors Author:Brendan Fraser
“When your trying to be an adult in a relationship you seriously don't need to lie or front and try to put on this big picture or pseud like your something that your not.” NeedsTryingBigsLyingFrontsLike YouAdultsBig Picture Author:Gabrielle Dennis
“I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I know that when you're 15, you love a band like you will kill people. But I don't quite realize that that's true about people - adults - who read The Hunger Games.” PeopleIfsKnowsIdeasHateGamesRealizingBoysLike YouBandPicksAdultsHungerMailOne DirectionBoy BandsHate Mail Author:Joel Stein
“I think it's more difficult writing what it's like to be a child. You can pretend you know what it's like, but you don't really know. The only parts I can remember is that the adults were like, "Aren't they cute?" But when you're little you're looking at the other kids like they're your colleagues. They're not like, "Oh, we're all cute little kids." They're more like your office acquaintances. It's very hard to grasp the memories of what it actually was like to be a kid.” ThinkingKnowsWritingChildrenLittlesI CanHardKidsRememberDifficultMemoriesLike YouOfficeAdultsCuteColleaguesLittle KidAcquaintance Author:Tama Janowitz