Quotes of: Young-adult Keyword

La Santona: [Addressing a young man seated before her, apparently seeking advice on his love life] You must plant your seeds in another field. Do you understand what I mean? Young man seeking advice: No, I don't understand. La Santona: It's simple, m...

Bicycle Thieves

You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.

Prince Harry

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Ashley Montagu

There's no shortage of great young activists.

Gloria Steinem

I have had young fascinations but never love.

Rita Ora

Ernestine used to remark, in a tone tinged with envy, that Lill was probably New Jersey's youngest gold digger, and that few adult gold diggers ever had received more, in return for less.

Cheaper by the Dozen

And why is it that so many years later it is so easy to distinguish the bullies from their prey? Adult bodies surrounding the children of long ago. The years have changed nothing.

Coloured Lights

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison

You're a kid,' said Alexandra. 'There is no just about it. Only adults say just a kid and what the heck do they know about anything? Have you looked at their world lately?

Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories

Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emotional burden they carry from childhood or indeed have ...

Full Circle

You won’t be able to do this ten years from now—just leave everything behind and go.

Graduates in Wonderland: The International Misadventures of Two (Almost) Adults

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.

The God Delusion

Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

I snap and storm around and then spend long nights thinking of the most damaged adults I know and wondering if my particular brand of maternal fuckups are how they ended up like that.

Glitter and Glue

Adults always ask kids how they are doing at school. The one subject kids absolutely hate talking about. You don't even want to talk about school when you are at school.

Gangsta Granny

It was like adults had their own little world that we weren't allowed to be a part of, and it didn't make sense because we were part of the world, too.

Gold in the Days of Summer: A Novella

I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.

Boy Meets Boy

He reminded me of all the questions I asked God years ago when God was too busy to answer. "Try asking God. I think it helps especially if you have problems talking to adults.

Battered

There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl...

J. Michael Straczynski