(334 quotes found)
“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.”
Pearl S. Buck
“Inside every adult male is a denied little boy”
Nancy Friday
“Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.”
Erma Bombeck
“There is something about the developing brain that can absorb the blow of a stroke that, in an adult or older child, would otherwise devastate.”
Bradley Schlaggar
“Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it”
Ogden Nash
“Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.”
Craig Claiborne
“An adult male living alone stops being a vaguely tragicomic bachelor once he is found in the circumstance of simultaneously taking a whiz and eating a sandwich”
Dean Allen
“To be adult is to be alone”
Jean Rostand
“We have a whole group of adults on the drug court team that cares about (the juveniles). We impress upon them this group of adults care about them.”
Casimir Adulewicz
“Active adults see themselves as being much younger than they are. And they're much more active than my parents were at 55 or 60 years of age.”
Casey Hill