Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.
The Waverley sisters hadn't been close as children, but they were as thick as thieves now, the way adult siblings often are, the moment they realize that family is actually a choice.
Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.
Remember: Inspired Children Become Empowered Adults That Help Brighten Humanity! Bullying Ben
It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.
When I was a child, I thought like a child. When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life.
I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn't we embrace such simple joys?
I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of characters, but growing up. You're in really adult situations at a young age, as far as being in charge of people.
Sitting around our kitchen table from a very early age on, we talked politics, and we talked policy. Never once can I ever remember my dad saying, 'Go away, this is an adult conversation.'
I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults... When you're fighting all the time, it gives you the ability to fight without getting angry.
For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.
The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or theme. The adult YA readers I know do actually consistently say that they are looking for an easy read, a fun read, an unchallenging read.
I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.
The patterns learned as a child, repeat as an adult. Those with an abusive childhood are very often oh-so blind to this inescapable truth.— André Chevalier
People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.
Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.
Now you're an adult, Katya!" he'd said, picking her up under the armpits like he'd been doing since she'd been born.
All this bunch of so-called 'adults' was doing was making enemies of one another when what they really needed to be concentrating on was how to get out alive.
As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.
