“ Adults are obsolete children. ”
“ Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. ”
“ A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult. ”
“ As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. ”
“ Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted. ”
“ I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years. ”
“ I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy my brother and I were treated the same. He didn't do kid stuff. There were no kid's menus you weren't allowed to order off the kid's menu at dinner - we had to try something from the adult menu. ”
“ Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. ”
“ At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family. ”
“ My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker. ”
“ Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? ”
“ Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. ”
“ I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes. ”
“ Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old. ”
“ To be adult is to be alone. ”
“ Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that. ”
“ When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to. ”
“ For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat. ”
“ Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about. ”
“ The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way. ”
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