Quotes of: Young-adult Keyword

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

Caitlin Flanagan

Mr. Parker: Holy smokes. Do... Do you know what this is? This is... A lamp! Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] It was indeed a lamp. Mr. Parker: Isn't that great? What a great lamp. Mother: I don't know... Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] The old man's eyes ...

A Christmas Story

I talk to children like adults and to adults like children.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

Shigeru Miyamoto

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.

O. J. Simpson

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

Mark Leyner

In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

Donna Shalala

I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.

Beverly Cleary

The same teen who can't legally operate a four-wheeler, or [ATV]...in a farm lane workplace environment can operate a jacked-up F-250 pickup on a crowded urban expressway. By denying these [farm work] opportunities to bring value to their own lives a...

Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

Young J.R.: [J.R. turns up the radio] Guess which Carter this is. Young Jack Cash: I don't know J.R. Young J.R.: Guess... Young Jack Cash: Anita? Young J.R.: Nope... Young Jack Cash: Who? Young J.R.: June.

Walk the Line

Often, our misunderstandings about love are born in disruptive family relationships, where someone was either one-up or one-down to an extreme. There is an appropriate and necessary difference in the balance of power between parents and young childre...

Break Through: When to Give In, How to Push Back: The Moment that Changes Everything

Young Simba: All right, it worked. Young Nala: We lost him. Young Simba: I - am a genius. Young Nala: Hey, genius, it was my idea. Young Simba: Yeah, but *I* pulled it off. Young Nala: With *me*. Young Simba: Oh, yeah? [leaps at Nala who flips Simba ...

The Lion King

Nemo Nobody adult: What's wrong? Elise: I was dreaming about Stefano. He doesn't give a damn about me. I love him. There can't be any other explaination for being in this state. I don't know what it could be. I'm not happy. I'm going crazy. Every mor...

Mr. Nobody

Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.

The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life

Lord of the Flies

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.

Temple Grandin

I did this movie called 'Lymelife' when I was 18, and you know, it was the first time I was working as an adult, a legal adult, and that was a huge growing experience for me.

Rory Culkin

Certainly in the movie business there are bullies all over - bullies in the distribution business, exhibition business, production. Fine-tuning adult bullying is different. When a bully is an adult, it's a whole different set of colors.

Martin Kove

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

Richard Lamm