Adults Quotations | Page 3

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

The girls I grew up with they're living normal, adult lives. So they call me now and they're like, 'Amy, I'm pregnant.' And I still react like, 'What are you going to do? I'll drive you, I guess.

For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.