Quotes of: Young-adult Keyword

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

Bruce Springsteen

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.

Candace Cameron Bure

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.

Caroline B. Cooney

I was a kid who did a kid show. Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.

Jon Stewart

When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.

Dwight Henry

Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.

Joanna Lumley

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

Rachel Cusk

It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits.

Terry Gilliam

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

John B. S. Haldane

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

Virginia Satir

[first lines] Giosué Orefice: [narrating as an adult] This is a simple story... but not an easy one to tell.

Life Is Beautiful

Adult Simba: You knew my father? Rafiki: Correction: I *know* your father.

The Lion King

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Clint Eastwood

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

Karl Marlantes

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

Mary Karr

While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.

Jennifer Armentrout

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

Peter Weir

There's no way I'm going to put this kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It's so hard as an adult, so why set her up to feel that bad as a child?

Rosanna Arquette

Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.

Ann Demeulemeester