#adult

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life. ↗

— Sheena Easton

#adult life #entire #half #i #life

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#against #because #capital #capital punishment #children

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

But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood. ↗

— Bernice Weissbourd

#changed #children #constant #continues #expanded

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

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#babies #baby #barren #damages #damaging

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

— Germaine Greer

#fertility #functions #important #management #most

The creative adult is the child who has survived. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#child #creative #survived #who

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#adultery #after #allow #between #consequently

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#adult #clue #frightened #i #people