327 Quotes About Adults

I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.

The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.

When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within reason.

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.