"We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives."
Read quote
7 likes
Adults quotes
Adults
1K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Adults
Browse quotes that often appear alongside adults — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Adults quotes (page 5 of 51)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics."
Read quote
7 likes
"If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush."
Read quote
7 likes
"Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner."
Read quote
7 likes
"At times like this, adults need a drink"
Read quote
7 likes
"Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them."
Read quote
7 likes
"What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.'"
Read quote
7 likes
"But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that."
Read quote
7 likes
"I see someone who is an adult now, but when you were a child you actually had a seer anointing and you used to see into the realm of the supernatural. It was the realm of the invisible kingdom of God. You saw things on that dark side and things on God's side and you were put down for your seer ability and so you shut it down."
Read quote
6 likes
"When adults wage war, children perish."
Read quote
6 likes
"I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it."
Read quote
6 likes
"I like stirring things up. Im on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I dont get in too much trouble."
Read quote
6 likes
"To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun."
Read quote
6 likes
"Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror."
Read quote
6 likes
"All my adult life people have been helping me."
Read quote
6 likes
"She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship."
Read quote
6 likes
"This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children."
Read quote
6 likes
"As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult."
Read quote
6 likes
"I'm not a scientist, I was not a good science student, I felt effectively alienated from science throughout my young life, and it was only when I became an adult that I began to really appreciate from a completely different angle the power of science."
Read quote
6 likes
"Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master."
Read quote
6 likes