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Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day.
The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid.
The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
I am an adult, but a damaged one.
Huh, when did being a grown up ever mean owt?
Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children.
If you're referring to yourself as a 'grown-up', then you're still totally a kid. 'Grown ups' call themselves adults
Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.
To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak ...
Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?"
Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?"
"Like what things?"
"Jobs, I guess. Friends. Trips. Hobbies.
At times like this, adults need a drink
Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-
Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age
Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think that realization means you're an adult.
Grown ups are certainly very strange.
We're kids, aren't we?
Yes, kids with grown-up powers.
Adults are only obsolete children.
The term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may lead the adolescent into misunderstanding as to his nature and his role in life. 'Young he is; 'adult' he is not.
I've matured, maybe, but not grown up.
Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.
An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.
But even grown-ups have elders who know better.
So, why the hell don't adults talk about anything interesting anyway? Or maybe it's just the ones I know, but really, what the fuck?
Children want to do what grownups do.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them
I'm not a grown up until everybody realises I'm a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.
What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?
All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
People with imagination
Adults always acted like they could fix everything. But they can't. And they know it.
Aren't grown up people just little children at heart?
I think I am an adult.
Hey, I'm totally an adult! I bitch and whine, I lie through my teeth and do things that are unfair. - Hachiman Hikigaya
We need strong, firm adults in our lives. And that those adults have to be us.
Maybe there weren't any grown-ups, only people who had worked hard and also got lucky and were slightly out of their depth, all of us doing the best job we could, which is all we can really hope for.
Adults are good at pretending to have things figured out, but we rarely do.
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
We all, one day, realize that we're not going to be kids forever and we're going to grow up.
Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.
Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.'
I keep thinking I'm a grown up, but I'm not.
They say you don't grow up until you lose your parents. Frankly, I'd prefer to be immature.
Grown ups' could learn a lesson from watching cartoons.
uppity children,
Being a grown-up was rubbish
Even as a kid I had to be the adult.
It's grown people who always believe the worst
Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult!
I'm starting to think being a grown-up isn't going to school or even paying your own rent. It's learning to fake it when you got no other choice.
Maturity is for serious people. Let us be immature and have endless fun.
They said - Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing ... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know ...
Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.
The world is an orphanage for grownups
The real problem with the world, too many people grow up.
The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.
I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.
I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.
You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.
people, the kind of man who
Once we were young, now we are adult.
Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.
Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.
Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.
Adults under threat feel like children.
You know, back in the old days adults were respected because of how wise they were, and people went to them to help settle disputes. Nowadays it's a whole different world, and half the time I wonder if grown-ups should really be in charge.
To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents
Adults were constantly auditioning, but for what?
Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'
Having kids certainly gets me to ask the question, 'Who is the adult here, and who is the kid?'
I realize that adults are just as fucked as the rest of us. No one really grows up. No one unravels all of life's many mysteries. They just grow older and become better liars.
Being mature isn't what it's cracked up to be.
An adult life...is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements.
Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids' creativity.
I've always seen myself as a grown-up. Since I was a little kid.
All grown-ups were once children ... but only few of them remember it.
The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.
No point in being a grown-up if you can't be childish.
Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.
This is for kids.."
"No, this is for everyone ... though we're kids within ourselves.
I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.'
Too many times, adults walk into situations, and people have already put them in a box: 'Oh, you write comedy.' Or, 'You're the development woman.' And it's not just our profession. It's hard to look at someone and say, 'What else is inside?'
I refuse to grow up. I won't become the adult guy.
Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.
Oh, you adults. You'll never understand anything about anything.
To be adult is to be alone.
We're all doomed to be adults.
How horrible it is that people have to grow up!
Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again
You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad.
Being an adult doesn't mean you're suddenly stuffy and boring - it just means you're a little more responsible, a little more considerate. Well, that's my definition of what being an adult means. And I'm always right, so, ya know, that's what it is.
Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.
It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up 'cause they're looking for ideas.
The problem with parents is that they're adults.
Adults have
the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct.
When we "grow up" we gain this experience and knowledge, but we lose our innocence and
sense of wonder. In other words, the price we pay for growing up is a permanent sense of
loss.