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• Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

  Peter De Vries

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Adult, Marriage

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

  Brad Delson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fact, Adult, Transform

• I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

  Patrick Stewart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adult, Never

• Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.

  Totie Fields

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Adult

• You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: ‘I’m not going to smoke and I’m not going to drink.’ And I said I’m not going to just say that when I’m a kid. I’m going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Myself, Mind, Adult

• In 2003 Scotland had 36 new business registrations per 10,000 adults. It’s still the same.

  Tom Hunter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adult

• One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Adult

• Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adult, Choice

• What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adult

• I feel as though I’ve fooled the world into thinking I’m an adult and now they’re letting me procreate.

  George Murray

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Thinking, Adult

• My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity – in the sense that I’m willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

  Jaron Lanier

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adult, Eccentricity

• I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I’m an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adult, Wake

• But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It’s more work and more good work. That’s it. People will have their opinion regardless.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Little, Adult

• The problem is that too many adults think their kids’ lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they’re young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.

  Sherman Alexie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adult, Problem

• What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.

  Shelley Berkley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adult

• I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.

  Temple Grandin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adult

• I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you’re a kid, you don’t necessarily pick up on it when you’re an adult.

  Victoria Pratt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Never, Adult

• But I don’t think I’ve grown up to be a damaged adult.

  Vanessa Mae

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Adult

• I like stirring things up. I’m on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don’t get in too much trouble.

  William Joyce

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Occasion, Adult

• I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren’t encouraged and then didn’t go anywhere with it and so they’re unhappy in their jobs as adults.

  William Joyce

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adult, Unhappy