Adult Responsibility Quotes

#1. I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.

Dexter Fletcher

#2. The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar. There's a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it for all of my adult life,

Ted Haggard

#3. But do not take this responsibility lightly, my boy. The Gauntlet casts an ominous shadow.

Casey Caracciolo

#4. We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

Noah Baumbach

#5. Being an adult isn't a matter of age. It's a matter of responsibility.

Jonathan L. Howard

#6. Parentified children learn to take responsibility for themselves and others early on. They tend to fade into the woodwork and let others take center stage. This extends into adulthood - adult children may put others' needs before their own. They may have difficulty accepting care and attention.

Kimberlee Roth

#7. A person who plays the game knowing he will win, doesn't impress me as much as the person who plays the game even though he knows that he might lose.

N'Zuri Za Austin

#8. Thank God for television. I've been able to consistently work in television even when people say, 'Oh my God, I haven't seen you since this film or that project.' At least I'm working. It's very difficult to get that next movie role. I'm grateful to have the television world accept me.

Rochelle Aytes

#9. There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point ... The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

R. Dawkins

#10. Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character.

Criss Jami

#11. Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life.

Kathy Mckeon

#12. difference between a child and an adult is not years, rather it's a willingness to accept responsibility, to be responsible for one's own actions.

Louis L'Amour

#13. Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

Garth Nix

#14. One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

Floyd Skloot

#15. I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#16. When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#17. I was 13 and a teenager, as well. When you're that age, you want to be an adult, in a way, but you don't want to have the responsibilities of an adult. You still want to have the freedom.

Elle Fanning

#18. My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

Rand Paul

#19. For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

Bruce Springsteen

#20. For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.

Steven Pinker

#21. Leaving the space station was bittersweet - I had been there for a long time and looked forward to leaving, but it is a remarkable place.

Scott Kelly

#22. The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.

Vita Sackville-West

#23. She'd discovered the beginnings of her adult person, her preference for lucidity, prudence, responsibility, and restraint. Tranquility could be eked from boredom, results from hard work.

V.S. Kemanis

#24. It's adult swim time and I'm diving in here at the shallow end.

Suzanne Finnamore

#25. I have a huge underground following on the web.

John McAfee

#26. The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.

Marianne Williamson

#27. Parker suspected that Jace had been born an adult. At nineteen he had a larger sense of duty and responsibility than ninety percent of the people Parker knew.

Tami Hoag

#28. It had been the most difficult part of coming to terms with what she was; knowing that she had to give up a potentially blissful and wildly happy relationship with Caleb. But it was her responsibility, she told herself, to say goodbye to him.

Katie Lynn Johnson

#29. The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the White House. You can't blame members of Congress for looking out for their parochial interests. It is the president's responsibility to look out for the national interest.

Bruce Bartlett

#30. If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

Barry Lopez

#31. They wish not to become adult - not to have to accept our kind of responsibility. And yet like all children, they want to be thought grown up, and free to do what they think are grown up things. And that leads sometimes to tragedy and sometimes to the aftermath of tragedy.

Agatha Christie

#32. We are the sum of our contradictions, together they make us whole.

Marty Rubin

#33. Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany shortcoming in adult life was now seen as rooted in the failure of mothering during childhood.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#34. and had safely passed

Anonymous

#35. Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them.

Deborah Harkness

#36. It is the responsibility of every adult ... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

Marian Wright Edelman

#37. Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God's good will toward us in all his gifts.

John Piper

#38. At the end of every light, is a tunnel of darkness.

Anthony Liccione

#39. This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

Nicole Richie

#40. You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#41. Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.

Virginia Cary Hudson