Quotes of: Adult-life Keyword

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.

Robert Jay Lifton

Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship.

Robert Webb

Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think.

Carrie Coon

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.

Norman Macleod

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

Mariel Hemingway

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Zoltan Kodaly

'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

Fede Alvarez

I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.

Alice Englert

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

Allen Klein

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

John Updike

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

Xavier Becerra

When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into pa...

East of Eden

I don't care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career -- every woman needs a couple of chicks who'll break out the sangria just because you need to vent.

Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner

One day, an unusually exciting event interrupted the rhythm of our regular middle-class teenage lives. A Russian woman, the mother of a girl in our class, was run over by a New York City bound train right in the center of town. Our classmate left sch...

The Many Loves of Mila

So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that...

Sophie's World

Knowledge isn't truth. It's just mindless agreement. You agree with me, I agree with someone else - we all have knowledge. We haven't come any closer to the truth. You can never understand anything by agreeing, by making definitions. Only by turning ...

Plays 1: Insignificance / Unsuitable for Adults / Cries from the Mammal House

Ralphie: Oooh fuuudge! Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Only I didn't say "Fudge." I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the "F-dash-dash-dash" word! Mr. Parker: [stunned] *What* did you say? Ralphie: Uh, um... Mr. Parker: That'...

A Christmas Story

We all think when we’re young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary.” I smiled and she chuckled. “But when we find ourselves in these adult bodies,” she said. “When we wise up a little, or get slapped in the f...

Glass Girl

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value...

The Stone Gods

Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yours...

So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

We live in our own world, A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge. And though you probe and pry With analytic eye, And eavesdrop all our talk With an amused look, You cannot find the centre W...

Song at the Year's Turning