Quotes by Adults Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society. Andrzej Wajda our-society cinema adults The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated. Ann Brashares sophisticated adults book Until you can intelligently articulate the other side's position, you are not an adult. You are a liberal. Ann Coulter position adults sides The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up. Ann Landers immature maturity adults I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie. Anna Chlumsky good-movie adults girl Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy. Anna Chlumsky adults cute kids I like to think of myself less like 'an adult' and more like a 'former fetus.' Anna Kendrick fetus adults thinking I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults. Anna Quindlen adults done exercise The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. Anthony Burgess adults relation book The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off. Anthony Kennedy fetus adults children Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships Anthony Storr adults order needs Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings. Art Linkletter adults knowing children Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult Art Spiegelman adults feels sometimes I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain. Arthur Bradford london adults writing The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it. Arthur Koestler groups adults society I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult. Arundhati Roy adults children thinking I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some defect, you make it obvious to everyone, and suddenly everyone is staring at just that defect. It's always like that. The more you hide something, the more it shows. But when you accept your defect, suddenly no one on earth sees it anymore. Audrey Tautou adults different thinking Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect. August Derleth adults children needs Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood? Baden Powell de Aquino boyhood adults wisdom No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want. Banana Yoshimoto childhood adults parent «1234567891011»