Adulthood quotes

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◆ A baby-sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers.

- 100

◆ As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

- Jim Henson99

◆ 99.99% of adulthood is mastering the art of the fake-smile-and-nod.

- 99

◆ What hurts me the most is teenage girls believe that having a baby will make their boyfriends love them, then they get a taste of adulthood.

- 99

◆ Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.

- Walt Disney99

◆ Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

- Walt Disney99

◆ Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas

- Paula Poundstone99

◆ You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

- Walt Disney99

◆ Where do babies come from? Don't bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation have yielded fruitful, if tentative, results. There are several theories. Near as we can figure out, it has something to do with acting ridiculous in the dark. We believe it is similar to dogs when they act peculiar and ride each other. This is called "making love". Careful study of popular song lyrics, advertising catch-lines, TV sitcoms, movies, and T-Shirt inscriptions offers us significant clues as to its nature. Apparently it makes grown-ups insipid and insane. Some graffiti was once observed that said "sex is good". All available evidence, however, points to the contrary.

- Matt Groenin99

◆ Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

- Gore Vidal99

◆ Adults are obsolete children.

- Dr Seuss99

◆ When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

- Brian W Aldiss99

◆ The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

- Rabindranath Tagore99

◆ Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

- Caryn Leschen99

◆ Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

- Dr Seuss99