Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chloe Grace Moretz

On set, I like to be treated just like a normal adult actor. We all put as much time and effort into our craft as adults, and maybe even more because we have school to do and a lot of things to figure out.

Cheryl Hines

I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.

John Grant

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously.

Caroline B. Cooney

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

Caroline Kennedy

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

Camilla Belle

My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

Carolyn Maloney

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

Clara Mamet

Im a truly loved kid, and hopefully it will make me a happier adult.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

Elizabeth Hardwick

The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.

Bruce Springsteen

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

Brian Tracy

Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.

Brian Henson

This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.

Brian Bosworth

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

Brad Delson

In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500.

Janet Reno

I have inquired for most of my adult life about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent. And I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.

Charlie Sheen

I refuse to grow up. I won't become the adult guy.

Dexter Fletcher

I have a natural affinity with children and adults who cant accept adult responsibility.

Dave Chappelle

When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

Aaron Swartz

The adults were completely wrong.

Beyonce Knowles

I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.

David Walton

You can't be trying to be funny. As an adult actor, sometimes I'll muddle it up by over-thinking things.

David Dinkins

I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.

Audrey Tautou

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.

Diablo Cody

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

Bobby Vinton

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.

Dare to be the adults we want our children to be.

We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.

I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

Elizabeth Bowen

The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see; he remembers what does not seem wholly possible. Inattentive learner in the schoolroom of life, he keeps some faculty free to veer and wander. His is the roving eye.

Dave Ramsey

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.

I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote.