#adult

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#approaches #back #closed #eyes #his

I'd love to wake up next to you in this room, in this bed, every day. ↗

— Faith Sullivan

#new-adult-contemporary-romance #new-adult-fiction #new-adult-lit #new-adult-romance #faith

Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#because #bit #change #just #just because

I woke with sweat beading across my forehead and my hands balled into fists clutching the sheet over my eyes. The dreams. They were back. Haunting me relentlessly. I thought they were gone... I should've known better. (Rayne) ↗

— Kimberly Brockman

#haunting #nightmares #paranormal-romance #young-adult-fiction #dreams

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me. ↗

— David Walliams

#absolute #adult #book #books #charlie

I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#afraid #band #between #bill #buying

The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#blood #bone #bone marrow #cell #cell research

Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#adult #being #buy #candy #i

Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#basis #bird #genetic #inheritance #natural

I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#camp #days #every #example #for example