Especially with the video games and social media we have now, I think that turning point from kid to sort of adult has gotten earlier with TV shows that are on right now and video games. They all contribute to that.
For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.
Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.
I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.
Bullying exists because of a lack adult intervention.
Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.
I have a lot more things to talk about now because I'm an adult.
I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldnt do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, Wow, they never told me no!
Every adult needs a child to teach; it’s the way adults learn.
It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.
I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
Right from the start my parents had left me to fend for myself. Apparently unaware that I was a kid, they invariably treated me like an adult, perhaps because they themselves were no spring chickens.
What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.
You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.
Nobody is excused from the excellence trend. Babies are not excused. Starting right after they get out of the womb, modern babies are exposed to instructional flashcards designed to make them the best babies they can possibly be, so they can get into today's competitive preschools. Your eighties baby sees so many flashcards that he never gets an unobstructed view of his parents' faces. As an adult, he'll carry around a little wallet card that says "7x9=63," because it will remind him of mother.
As a child, everyone dreams of finding treasure. There's romance and drama. But as an adult most people aren't going to spend their lives trying to find it.
. . . that was Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things to Have a Funner LIfe and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself Number 83. . . If a Adult Tells You Not to Worry, and You Weren't Worried Before, You Better Hurry Up and Start 'Cause You're Already Running Late.
Did you ever look into the personalities of male cooks, Army, logging camp, etc. ? They're all supposed to be crazy, incomprehensible, contemptible. And angry. The act of feeding adult males seems to have strange personality effects.
You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.
Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.