Adult Quotes
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Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just ‘be’ and drops ‘am,’ ‘is,’ and ‘are.’ That’s because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language. (Adult Quotes)
When I first began writing, and I told people what I wrote, I’d get a blank stare and sometimes a ‘Huh?’ They weren’t sure what young adult literature was. Now everyone knows. (Adult Quotes)
When you’re kept out of the adult world, it’s a blessing in disguise (Adult Quotes)
A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, ‘Pinocchio’ or ‘Bambi’ or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing ‘The Blue Angel’ and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally. (Adult Quotes)
A number of well-understood mechanisms, including single gene mutations, produce changes that qualify as macroevolution. These include heterochronic mutations that alter structures by changing growth rates, homeotic mutations that change the identities of whole body parts, and paedomorphosis, which converts juvenile stages directly to adult ones. (Adult Quotes)
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. (Adult Quotes)
I have a cartoon I’m developing with Adult Swim called ‘Monster Town U.S.A.,’ so I’m busy doing that. Trying to do a coffee-table book of my photography that’s been requested of me a couple of times. I’m constantly busy. (Adult Quotes)
I’m writing my next book under a pseudonym. It will be Mark Twain’s best young adult romance. (Adult Quotes)
I’m usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back. (Adult Quotes)
I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California. (Adult Quotes)
When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives (Adult Quotes)
What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership. (Adult Quotes)
There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things. (Adult Quotes)
It is harder to get adult, character-driven material on television than it used to be, but there are lots of other places that you can go to sell it. If you can do it for basic cable or pay cable, we have those outlets. (Adult Quotes)
I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can’t get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids. (Adult Quotes)
Why would any parent want their kid on their health-care plan when they are 26? Parents want their kids to grow up and take care of themselves. A 26-year-old is an adult. (Adult Quotes)
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that’s not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher. (Adult Quotes)
Many people have overcome that home situation simply by having at least one caring adult, whether a teacher, mentor or religious leader. (Adult Quotes)
I don’t see why it’s such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film. (Adult Quotes)
Center Stage focused on the drive and what it’s like to be a student, and this is what it’s like to be an adult and what you need to give up in the pursuit of that passion and that focus. (Adult Quotes)
I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of characters, but growing up. You’re in really adult situations at a young age, as far as being in charge of people. (Adult Quotes)
I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. (Adult Quotes)
I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I’m with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That’s basically how we’re doing it. (Adult Quotes)
The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It’s taken me a long time. (Adult Quotes)
Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man’s land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor. (Adult Quotes)
Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception. (Adult Quotes)
. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child (Adult Quotes)
I prefer to write books for children instead of reading them. But I do strongly believe in childhood and in respecting childhood innocence. I don’t like books for children that deal with adult themes. (Adult Quotes)
The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn’t easy. (Adult Quotes)
Siblings are the guarantors that the private childhood world - so unlike the adult world that scientists are only just beginning to understand it - is a fully shared and objective one. (Adult Quotes)