Adult Quotations | Page 6

I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading.

I'm 62 years old. You can't tell me that some little kid coming up to me -- he doesn't know me. These guys will ask their sons to come out here and get these autographs, and then they'll take them back and sell them in their stores, or they'll sell them to dealers. The bad thing about the whole thing is when an adult sees Gale Sayers turn away a kid and says, 'Well, Gale Sayers is a so-and-so because he wouldn't sign an autograph for a little kid.' But I know what he's doing.

In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and I could not put it down. When I finished it, I had to find out the true facts behind the story and if people really carried on like that in those days. So I began to read proper history books, and found that they did!

In my 20s some of my work for children was published by Macmillan. However, I was 27 before my adult novel... was taken by DAW Books in the USA. This enabled me finally to stop doing stupid and soul-killing jobs, and start working day and night as a professional writer.

Immature brain development is not an excuse for juvenile criminal activity, ... (But) it is an explanation which mitigates their culpability. It explains why they should be held accountable and in some cases punished severely, but never as severely as an adult who commits the same crime.

I mostly see people going to news sites or Pointcast or the NCAA Final Four site, but for the most part, it's before business hours, after business hours or during lunch time. I've been monitoring usage for six months, and I haven't seen anyone go to adult sites.

I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.

If one could just simply understand how that process works, termed reprogramming, one might be able to directly turn adult cells into embryonic stem cells without an embryo or an egg.

I have not talked to him since he's been down there in Miami, ... I know what's going on with him. I don't want to be just another person saying 'Hey, keep your head up.' He's an adult now and he knows how to handle it.

In an adult and in a child, you want them to begin rehabilitation as soon as possible.

I'm a retired psychologist. I thought that I needed to do something I enjoyed. And I've enjoyed flowers, plants and gardening all my adult life.

If (players) are really going to have a problem, they will have to make a decision about how they want to spend their adult life in terms of playing in the NBA or not, ... quite liberal and easygoing.

I once heard an adult ask another adult if her daughter was in STAND. One adult responded by saying, she was until her daughter was asked to bring in a roll of toilet tissue. The mom said it was too much, too embarrassing. I was so sad to hear this response from an adult. It was such a teachable moment about social responsibility, compassion and empathy.

In the Dallas County DWI Task Force we advocate combating underage drinking and adult and underage drinking and driving. We have worked closely with the Dallas Police Department and police departments across the state to create tougher laws that will combat drinking problems.

Instead of addressing the real problem, which is enforcement, the City Council has chosen to enact an overly broad bill that criminalizes a cultural activity. We live in a city that is the cultural capital of the world, yet it is a crime for a young adult to carry a magic marker. What's next -- watercolors or crayons?

I like to say we are the 7-Eleven of education. People can come in and pick up what they need. Work changes, family changes, we can accommodate that. We are close to where people live. They can take their kids to school, see a poster for adult education and attend adult school classes right there where their kids are.

I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.

I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk.

I just realised I'm the adult and I have to be strong. I didn't want to plod along in a numb state, I needed to be totally aware of what's going on, otherwise it wouldn't be fair.

I looked at the top 10 films every year, and half of them were made for families. That's a safety zone. There is more opportunity for pure storytelling when you're dealing with the family audience and more creative freedom to explore different genres without being held to the same standard as movies geared toward an adult audience.

I look back five years ago, when I thought I was adult and knew everything about the world, and I realize I knew nothing.

I hope no kid or adult has to go through what I'm going through.

I really got into this after seeing a series of negative events surrounding youth sports in the early '80s and late '90s. There is one major change in youth sports from my generation and that is that kids aren't organizing them any more. It's done by adults. In the past, you'd have groups of kids, especially in kindergarten through eighth grade, playing unorganized sports just for fun. Things are becoming too organized and too competitive. Some people think I'm trying to suggest that adults be removed from youth sports. I'm not. I'm suggesting the adult ego be removed from youth sports.

In the age that I am, in my entire adult life that I have been lobbying for reproductive freedom--why does it seem like we're going so far backwards?

In the beginning, I don't think any juvenile of kinder years, of young age like that, should be in an adult facility. I think that is in and of itself criminal.

If you watch a group of schoolchildren eating lunch together, you cannot help but notice how it is a comically Lilliputian version of the adult thing - the cocked eyebrows of conversation, the reaching for condiments, the shovelling of food into tiny mouths.

I had been terrified of Halloween my entire adult life. Loved it as a kid, but the minute I got out of college, there were little kids at my door demanding candy, which, No. 1, I couldn't afford, and, No. 2, if I had candy, it would be mine.

If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction... Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I'm writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges.

It has every component that has proven conducive to the consumption of adult entertainment - privacy, easy access, and, on top of it, mobility,

I tend to have them submit to psychological testing, and what I find is they're not predators, but they're immature and, males especially, flattered girls find them interesting. Treating them as if these people are grooming these young females for some illicit relationship ? my own judgment is most of the time, that never happens. They're ceasing to be the adult in the situation." ()

I realized that, as an adult leader in this group, I wasn't driving the bus any longer, ... I decided to change our plans for the fall and let this idea take hold.

Clearly the evidence is there that we have young people under the age of 21 routinely buying alcohol in our bars. Let's be realistic about it, and that's not good. When you get to be 21 then you can be an adult and you can drink responsibly and be an adult. But right now we don't need to have people under 21 in bars.

Clearly, it is a recognition that it has a more sophisticated, attractive and elegant look. That appeals to more upscale adult consumers.

Clearly an adult must be responsible enough to come in and ensure that doesn't happen.

Children in state custody can come in with an adult and get whatever they need. They can get clothing, school supplies, toys. When newborn babies come in, the shelter moms come in to get diapers and formula.

Because teenagers don't have adult responsibilities yet, you can create your own drama, and it's a universe of your own emotions.

He's ready for it. He's going to be glad to have me gone. He's an adult and he's been living on his own for a long time. He's ready to be back doing his thing. He's actually doing pretty well.

I don't know... it's just too much fun to wonder about what life would be without gravity. I just started thinking about outer space more as an adult than I probably ever did as a kid. That was also inspiring, the concept of being stuck to the earth.

Cheney's great strength in the administration has been as the adult in the room behind the scenes. With the allegations about the leaking, which are potentially very, very serious, and this (hunting) story, I think there is real doubt now about his position, his stature.

Chemistry is good for fun - it's like baseball. It has its role for small children, but I can't see an adult being concerned with it.

Generally speaking, the whole point of adult masquerades is that you get to do something that you don't normally do.

Gary and I do adult medicine, treating chronic illnesses such as diabetes and hypertension.

If I break the silence, maybe others will, too. I think that's the toughest thing as a survivor. You're told to feel guilty. You're told it's your fault. When I realized it wasn't my fault, that's when the healing really began. For 20 years, I believed it was my fault. If you're a kid who is out there and this has happened, the adult knew better. You were taken advantage of. It's okay to talk about it.

I describe Tony as very visionary and dream-like. He goes through a change -- from being a gang-child to being an adult making adult decisions.

I'd have to be out of the state or not in Eugene to not get to my adult league game. And I'm not a red-hot player. I have to wear glasses and whatnot.

I don't think there will be a problem unless somebody wants to make a problem, ... If they really want to make a problem, they're going to have to make a decision about how they want to spend their adult life in terms of playing in the NBA or not.

I'd rather have someone who spent his adult life in New York.

I doubt it. It sounds like an adult agenda to me.

I appreciate Karl backing me up and minimizing the penalties. No individual player on the team is being penalized. It was just an adult that made a wrong decision.

I appreciate Karl backing me up and minimizing the penalties, ... No individual player on the team is being penalized. It was just an adult that made a wrong decision.

I applaud Sudbury Valley's focus on freedom, but not what I take to be an inattention to community. Sudbury has a libertarian bent, and the worldview seems to see all adult involvement as an authoritarian restriction of personal autonomy. Total autonomy is not developmentally appropriate. Kids need guidance and many of them need structure at the same time that they need the opportunity to learn how to make good decisions.

I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next.

I don't look at teens as teens. I think maybe that's the whole trick to what I do, is that they're just smart, sophisticated adult characters. And they happen to be 15.

I do not believe that I will ever write an adult novel from an animal's point of view unless someday it becomes suddenly appealing to me to make a narrator a mentally ill pet. Never say never.

Cartooning has come a long way. It started out as an adult medium, for satirical purposes; then the appeal to children got emphasized.

I believed then - in a deep, easy way that is impossible for me as an adult - that there was more to this world than meets the eye. Trees had spirits; the wind spoke. If you followed a toad or a raven deep into the heart of the forest, they were sure to lead you to something magical.

He and his friends used to play basically an adult version of hide and seek, where they would run and hide in the woods and people would try to find them.

He agreed to stay out of the adult Web site business for the term of his probation.

The majority of deaths with kids under 16 are because they were on adult ATVs.

The underage drinker is not only at fault, but there is an adult behind that. If they're drinking underage (they're) breaking the law and whoever provided that alcohol is breaking the law.

This is a commonsense law that provides parents with the tools they need to protect their children from the effects of violence and graphic adult content,

The CW will be able to do in its first season something truly remarkable -- program already hit shows every single day of the week, shows ranked No. 1 or No. 2 in the most-coveted young adult demos.

An average adult is exposed to over 100 unique chemicals in personal-care products every day. These exposures add up.

The hunt was designated by the Nevada Wildlife Commission to encourage families to get their youngsters into the field without having competition from adult hunters. These types of hunts have proven to be really fun for the young hunters and we hope that families will take their kids hunting on those days.

The ESA is extremely pleased that Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony Computer Entertainment America have voluntarily stepped up to take concrete steps to put the power to regulate the games kids play where it belongs ? in the hands of parents, not government, retailers, or anyone else. The combination of these new controls, the existing ESRB rating system, and voluntary commitments by retailers not to sell Mature and Adult Only games to minors strikes the right balance between strong self-regulation and the ultimate responsibility of parents to take charge of the media their kids consume.

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

The growing interest is coming from our adult and senior populations, with a need for more family-oriented activities.

A lot of women have been dieting just about their entire adult lives - and becoming pregnant is their opportunity to toss self-deprivation out the window, ... What to Expect: Eating Well When You're Expecting.

You've got too many formats adult contemporary, adult alternative, soft rock, neo-soul come on! ... I'm hoping I will fit in all the marketplaces and not be limited to one place in music.

The good news continue to be the fact that with growth in its Hollister division, a fast-growing Internet business, a new concept coming in the third quarter and flattish comps (sales compared to last year) in the core adult business, healthy top-line growth should be sustainable. Also, Abercrombie's men's business is finally beginning to show some life after three years of negative comparable sales.

The court ruled that the law was content-based because it restricted only sexually explicit adult programming,

The combination of these new controls, the existing ESRB rating system, and voluntary commitments by retailers not to sell Mature and Adult Only games to minors strikes the right balance between strong self-regulation and the ultimate responsibility of parents to take charge of the media their kids consume.

The clubhouse is not a place where people come to stop. It's not adult day care. It's a place where people come to move on with their lives.

A more nutritious diet and moderate exercise reduce the risk of developing adult diabetes by 58 percent,

An adult can be gone if they want to be gone. And unless there's blood found or any kind of thing out of the ordinary, there's nothing we can do.

An adult bed is not the place for a small infant because there are so many factors.

All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Richie Cusick, and so on. I loved how you never really knew who the 'bad guys' were in their works, and I wanted to capture that feeling with 'Don't Look Back.'

The kids who played last year can say that was an adult problem, we won the title. We as adults dropped the ball.

The Internet threatens to give every child with access to an interactive computer a free pass into the equivalent of every adult bookstore and video outlet in the country.

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.

The growth for education and training will be in continuing adult education. Online delivery is the trigger for this growth, but the demand for lifetime education stems from profound changes in society. We live in an economy where knowledge, not buildings and machinery, is the chief resource and where knowledge-workers make up the biggest part of the work force.