Adult Quotes
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Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating (Adult Quotes)
To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn’t like it, but it made it easier to go on (Adult Quotes)
It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self (Adult Quotes)
Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him (Adult Quotes)
Don’t let life randomly kick you into the adult you don’t want to become (Adult Quotes)
I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don’t have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system (Adult Quotes)
The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while you are still growing into that more beneficial picture (Adult Quotes)
Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child (Adult Quotes)
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox (Adult Quotes)
It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines (Adult Quotes)
Even though probably the majority of homosexuals are not oriented towards young people, there is a significant number that are, especially the men... male homosexuality has historically been not adult to adult it has been adult to teenager (Adult Quotes)
You can be 24 and continue to live like you’re at college, or even continue to live like you’re in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult (Adult Quotes)
The best thing about candy is that it can’t be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent (Adult Quotes)
There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire their adult dress, and the changes which occur in this with years. Little, too, is known about the laws and routes of bird migration, and much less about the final disposition of the untold thousands which are annually produced (Adult Quotes)
Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing (Adult Quotes)
It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws are known, the door of the future will in a measure be opened; determination of the child’s present status will enable us to forecast what manner of adult he will become (Adult Quotes)
Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature adult... Many young teachers have a tendency to seek popularity, resorting to tactics that can create endless problems (Adult Quotes)
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning (Adult Quotes)
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings (Adult Quotes)
My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying the dire reality we are facing. Leadership can come form anywhere (Adult Quotes)
You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else (Adult Quotes)
College is such a unique time because you’re learning a little bit how to be an adult. You’re learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you’re exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn’t even know how to think until I got to college (Adult Quotes)
I think that it’s really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that’s usually directed towards children (Adult Quotes)
I am not an adult, that’s my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child, unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence (Adult Quotes)
My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window (Adult Quotes)
I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult world. Toys are not innocent (Adult Quotes)
The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm... But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more than merely aware of the idol he wishes to destroy. He must be intimate with it and understand it in all its aspects. This means that he must have devoted serious thought to it, and have beliefs of his own which will stand up in the place of the broken idol. In other words, any child can complain, but it takes an adult to clash with accepted beliefs... an adult with ideas (Adult Quotes)
When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able to heal the wounds of the child and the adult and begin to live the lives we’ve always wanted to live (Adult Quotes)
At that time in my life I implicitly understood something that adults seem to have forgotton: that we do have control over our own bodies. I forgot that many times as an adult, too; but sometimes when I was in the flow and running with complete confidence, I would remember that feeling and know that I could will my body to do my bidding. On those days I was unbeatable (Adult Quotes)
... the growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part of adults or cure adult offenders (Adult Quotes)