Quotes About Adult

Needless to say, taken literally, this is just as absurd. For an adult organism the energy content is as stationary as the material content. Since, surely, any calorie is worth as much as any other calorie, one cannot see how a mere exchange could help.

I don't see how 'Hunchback' could ever appeal to children. It's a very adult story that deals with repressed sexuality.

It's not fit work for an adult just dragging idols off the shelf. It's too easy.

'Sinskari' is an adult chat show, which will include questions about their deep dark secrets. Some dialogues may have to be beeped out.

All the weird inconveniences of adult life that you thought they made up to lend excitement and color to episodes of 'Sex and the City' are, in fact, real.

The truth is, few people put up with emotional abuse as an adult unless they were abused as a child. And nearly every person who becomes emotionally abusive has a history of such abuse in childhood.

a touchy-feely vision of our society that places individual self-expression and rights over self-sacrifice and adult responsibility.

The dojo system in Japan is something very unique. It prepared me not only for wrestling in the States and around the world, but it also prepared me for how to handle myself as an adult in the real world.

I became a wrestling fan in college. So, I was more of a wrestling fan as an adult than when I was a little kid.

The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.

I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.

I was moved, too, to see her excited as a child--but no, for there is no childhood excitement to equal the adult journey to the beloved.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

But the child inevitably haunts the adult, even when the former self is no longer recognizable.

The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.

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.

By naming sexism as the problem it went directly to the heart of the matter. Practically, it is a definition which implies that all sexist thinking and action is the problem, whether those who perpetuate it are female or male, child or adult.

There is, I think, in either a man or a woman a tendency to feel affection for any child whom he or she has to tend. Even if nothing but custom and convention, or wages, have in the first instance caused an adult to have the care of a child, the mere fact of having that care will, in the majority of cases, cause affection to grow up.

Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.

There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.

As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.

When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.

I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know.

Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.