327 Quotes About Adults
- Author Kate DiCamillo
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There was something scary about watching adults sleep. It was as if no one at all were in charge of the world.
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- Author Elizabeth Bowen
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Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork: even when someone is not ill, when there has been no telegram, they run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.
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- Author Chuck Bridges
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Wondering if an adult does a stupid thing should he be tried as a child?
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- Author Neal Asher (author)
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Like adults throughout history Jebel then just stood there unable to think of anything else to say.
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- Author Neil Gaiman
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I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies...
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- Author Toni Morrison
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Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.
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- Author R.K. Lilley
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Where Bianca was I had a right to be. This was the order of the universe.
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- Author Jacqueline Woodson
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Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone —adults promising us their own failed future.
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- Author Deyth Banger
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How people started to disappear??It's an interesting question isn't it?I guess on 89% sure that they are killed in the time, we live in the future and they are killed in the past... so far a time teleport used by the adults!
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