327 Quotes About Adults

  • Author Marilyn Manson
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    I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

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  • Author Michael Morpurgo
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    Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors of the adult world. They know very early on that the world is sometimes a very dark, difficult and complex place, and the literature they read must reflect that. Otherwise we're just entertaining them to pass the time.

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  • Author Moby
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    I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

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  • Author Shirley MacLaine
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    Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it, you're better prepared for being an adult in the world.

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  • Author Juice Newton
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    But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

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  • Author Kathleen Norris
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    But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

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  • Author Peggy Noonan
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    Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

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