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• The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

  Germaine Greer

  Topics in Management

  Tags in Adulthood

• You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

  Walt Disney

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Adulthood, Cartoon

• Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

  Gore Vidal

  Topics in America

  Tags in Advertising, Teenage, Adulthood, American

• An adult male living alone stops being a vaguely tragicomic bachelor once he is found in the circumstance of simultaneously taking a whiz and eating a sandwich

  Dean Allen

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Adulthood, Elderly, Body, Mind

• Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

  Caryn Leschen

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Adulthood, Elderly, Body, Mind

• Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas

  Paula Poundstone

  Topics in Children, Funny

  Tags in Adulthood, Ideas

• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age

  Walter Savage Landor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adulthood, Study

• A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.

  Unknown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adulthood, Patience

• Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

  Thomas Szasz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adulthood, Apparent, Childhood, Old Age

• 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.

  Helen Keller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adulthood, Silence

• Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light, or

  Abraham Maslow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adulthood, Fashion

• If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adulthood, Fashion

• Too many people grow up. That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don’t remember what it’s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won’t do that.

  Walt Disney

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Growing Up, Adulthood, People, Elderly

• We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until… we have stopped saying “It got lost,” and say “I lost it.”

  Sydney J. Harris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adulthood, Childhood

• When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

  Brian Aldiss

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adulthood, Childhood

• Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

  Andy Warhol

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Adulthood, People

• Children aren’t dogs; adults aren’t gods

  Topics in Children, Haitian Proverbs

  Tags in Adulthood, Parents

• If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business

  Ronald Reagan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adulthood, Chance

• Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses.

  J. M. Barrie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adulthood, Girls

• Affection between adults – if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children – and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adulthood, Affection