#adult

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#children #depends #grow #grow up #how

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#adult #any #become #before #him

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#decisions #i #kid #lemon #lemonade

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#adult #child #convince #every #gradually

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult. ↗

— Moby

#became #food #food stamps #i #stamps

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess. ↗

— Cleo Moore

#adultery #best #called #did #film

Say it again,” he says. “That whole drawn-out speech?” I remember something about a solar system, but I’m too light-headed to recite the entire thing all over again. He steps closer. “No. The part about you fallin’ for me. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#romantic #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #romantic

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#argument #crime #know #many #more

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

#another #any #assume #child #deeply

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him. ↗

— Frank Pittman

#function #him #his #however #parents