Quotes of: Young-adult Keyword

The traditional role of the Senate has been to be the adult in the room.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

Laurence Olivier

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

Mohsin Hamid

I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now.

Ned Beatty

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

Moby

I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

Karl Pilkington

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

Nigella Lawson

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

Herb Brooks

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

Anna Chlumsky

If you don't get famous when you're a kid, it makes the transition to adult actor easier.

Tom Guiry

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

Chris Hardwick

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

Christopher Hitchens

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Isaiah Berlin

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

Gil Scott-Heron

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

Gus Van Sant

I had a boyfriend for a long time, and I've never really been single as an adult.

Erin Heatherton

A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.

Khloe Kardashian

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

Vivienne Westwood

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Alexander Chase

The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.

Tim Walberg

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

W.H. Auden