Top 1200 Young Adult Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

The move into adult comedy wasn't so much moving away from 'The Wonder Years' as expanding myself as a director.

The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.

We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.

I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical and not very adult.

In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up.

I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading.

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

My first year, I was really a kind of a wild guy. But I had a very difficult car to drive and I was very young. I think I was maybe too young to have started straight away.

I remember being in St. Lucia and my dad taking me out on a jet ski. I was very young, too young, but, yup, dad does like to break rules.

The 'Billy On The Street' persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child - obviously not having an adult perspective on the world.

When you're young, taking a risk doesn't necessarily feel like a risk because you're young.

I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.

Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the interestsof National Security, I cannot see the wisdom of denying our young women the opportunity to serve their country.

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

I'm not usually an eavesdropper,but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.

You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.

The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.

I wasn't a pain in the ass when I was a kid. So I think being a screw-up as an adult is way more acceptable.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

I am grateful to be able to participate in the adult citation program where I will complete community service.

My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.

The gap between the young people and the rest of society is that... young people don't have hope.

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.

As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.

You don't understand what you're angry about as a young man. You have those young man blues.

A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.

My first book was about grappling with my identity and transitioning medically and socially as a young person. At that point, it hadn't been told yet. There wasn't a trans memoir that was written from the perspective of a young person that transitioned.

I may be a young girl, but behind every young girl is a powerful father.

I've done a lot of things for a very young audience so far, such as The Sarah Jane Adventures. I'm tiny and petite and I look very young, so I tend to attract those kinds of roles.

It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance.

I would tell young people to start where they are with what they have and that the secret of a big success is starting with a small success and dreaming bigger and bigger dreams, I would tell them also that a young Black woman or a young Black man can't dream too much today or dare too much if he or she works hard, perseveres and dedicates themselves to excellence.

I was 17, on TV, and kind of thought, 'I'm awesome. Why don't you treat me like an adult?' I was arrogant.

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.

You expect two-year olds to wear diapers and make a mess with just about everything they touch. We have to allow the young in Christ to be immature, and yes, make messes. Young and immature prophetic people will act like young and immature prophetic people. The belief that some have tried to impose on the prophetic - that if you made one mistake you are a false prophet - inhibits their maturity, or worse, it can profoundly distort their character.

From a very young age, I felt a spiritual, visceral, instinctual connection with 'black is beautiful.' Just the black experience and wanting to celebrate that. And I didn't know how to articulate that as a young child.

For most of my adult life, I drove through Central Park every morning going to work.

It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours... better in many ways! I have the faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it.

The gap between the young people and the rest of society is that...young people don't have hope.

Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

The one thing that always sticks out to me was how reading to young people - even if they're not that young, even if they're too cool for school, middle schoolers - what a profound act of love it is.

The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven't identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds.

Part of your process of becoming an adult is admitting to yourself that The Doors were a shitty band.

A lot of young people dont think they can make a difference. Thats really what I am at Dartmouth to do. Im there to tell the young people, Look, a few committed souls can change the world.

I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

I remember meeting Roger Moore at my grandfather's house as a young boy and being impressed because I was such a big fan of '007.' But I was young, and I didn't have a perception of what celebrity was or who my grandfather was... I still don't, really.