Top 100 Age Adult Quotes
#1. Congratulations," she said. "You win.
Megan Duke
#2. For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.
Ezra Miller
#3. I got so much out of 'The To-Do List.' This is a joke that I say about myself sometimes, in terms of my film career: I feel like I'm always playing the kid in serious adult movies. So, for me, it was so wonderful to suddenly be working with other people my age who were doing this on film.
Sarah Steele
#4. Even the most beautiful flower, the rose," he argued, "has the thorn that makes it imperfect.
Lynetta Halat
#5. How can a fifteen-year old girl defend her love when that love is dismissed by everyone? It's impossible to defend yourself against inexperience and age. And maybe they're right. Maybe we don't know love like an adult knows love, but we sure as hell feel it.
Colleen Hoover
#6. He tilted my chin up and I swear those lips are magic. Witchcraft. Sorcery. Whatever it is in those lips, it's addictive. Unassailable. I had to have more. More of this feeling of being wanted.
Taylor Rhodes
#7. I'm looking for somekind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy.." -Page 81
Emery Lord
#8. What can I do? his gaze on me was intense, like I was some sort of love guru or something. I almost laughed out loud at how unqualified I was for that position.
Katrina Abbott
#10. His smile is beautiful. It's the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter how big. I have no choice but to smile back.
S. Elle Cameron
#11. At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.
Milla Jovovich
#12. It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself.
Natalie Portman
#13. I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.
John Irving
#14. Children's and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that's why so many adults read YA: we're never done coming of age.
Betsy Cornwell
#15. As I watch Nicholas make his way back to his truck, I know one thing: this boy is going to make my life very interesting. I feel as if a fragment of the old me broke away tonight and disappeared, and I'm finally, truly beginning my new life.
Marie Landry
#16. There's something about the thousands of glittering lights, the veil of nighttime that almost makes this place beautiful, especially in the reflection of the water. It makes everything askew, disoriented. There's more truth in a ripple of water than in a clear day.
Ellie Lieberman
#17. Lucille, please make them go away!" she moaned, her voice muffled.
"Do you think I am a divine being sent from the celestial realm to guard you from the harsh punishment of rousing from your slumber?"
"Is that a yes?"
"I am surrounded by idiots.
Erica Sehyun Song
#18. Youth is to wander! Adult is to act! Age is to assimilate the beauty of thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#19. I called all adults by their first names, and my mum was just another adult. I was the firstborn of my generation in the family, but because I was so close to my parents in age, they treated me with a kind of adult respect. They talked to me as an equal.
Nile Rodgers
#21. Not surprisingly, my parents' generation did everything they could to make life easier for their own children. Was that good for us? I wonder. It certainly didn't do us any good from a cultural point of view. I'm struck by how few boomers have embraced adult culture in middle age.
Terry Teachout
#22. I was not a believer in instalove. So said the rational part of my brain.
Katrina Abbott
#23. I push through physical pain. Life hurts. I enjoy the positives.
Carla J. Hanna
#24. I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.
Ann Marie Frohoff
#25. How old did they tell you I am?" she demanded, hurrying to match his pace.
Joel shook his head. "If my mother ever taught me anything, it was to never question a lady's age.
Deidre Huesmann
#26. She might have been there for you in the aftermath, but I was there when everything came crashing down.
Megan Duke
#27. My mom says . . . there are bad people who hurt others for fun . . . and there are good people who do it by accident. Like, they make a mistake?
I think you're a good person.
Svetlana Chmakova
#28. I'm too old to be ignorant as I am."
--Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.
Elle Thornton
#29. The bus stops and out get the sort of people who travel by bus between cities: students, old people--mainly women--and the middle-aged who cannot afford the train and who have never grown old enough to drive. Out we get, and away we go, the young, the old, and the failed girls.
Joanna Walsh
#30. As a little kid, Peter had figured that once you reached a certain age, somebody just handed you all the knowledge you'd need in order to be an adult. But it turned out that wasn't how it worked.
Tommy Wallach
#31. Making friends is not a big deal. Replacing me with them after talking to them for only one bloody day is a big deal.
Erica Sehyun Song
#32. They have lived life. They have experienced joy. They met comfort and they saw deception. Their lives have something for us! Young ones, go to the aged and ask them why their age?
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#33. The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or theme. The adult YA readers I know do actually consistently say that they are looking for an easy read, a fun read, an unchallenging read.
Russell Smith
#34. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe there really is some goodness here in our world. But if goodness existed, that must mean that darkness existed as well.
Erica Sehyun Song
#35. I think more people are going to continue reading YA as well as reading other books because they have learned that they can find books there which they will truly love: a teenage protagonist is close enough to adult so readers of whichever age can sympathise and empathise with them.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#36. I always loved the work. As soon as I finished a movie, the most exciting thing to do was to try to jump into the next one. How I feel about it is that I learned a lot, so I'm grateful that I learned so much, at such a young age, rather than in my more adult professional career.
Joe Swanberg
#37. I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life.
LeAnn Rimes
#38. Do the thing you love to do. Hank Williams died at the ripe old age of twentynine. Stevie Ray Vaughan at thirty-five. Jesus at thirtythree. Don't think you're special and the Lord's gonna bless you with time.
Jill S. Alexander
#39. Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature adult ... Many young teachers have a tendency to seek popularity, resorting to tactics that can create endless problems.
Jim Brown
#40. I brooded over it. If it had been any other dream, I would have ignored it. But it was one of those dreams. One of those purple dreams. One of those dreams that had an unusual tendency to come true.
Erica Sehyun Song
#41. By the war's end, some 180,000 blacks had served in the Union Army - over one fifth of the nation's adult male black population under age forty-five.
Eric Foner
#42. Life is not only consisted of "yes" and "no", but a lot of "yes and's" and "no but's".
Vann Chow
#43. As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead
#44. In an age that seems to be increasingly dehumanized, when people can be transformed into non-persons, and where a great deal of our adult art seems to diminish our lives rather than add to them, children's literature insists on the values of humanity and humaneness.
Lloyd Alexander
#45. Cry your guts out because nothing is sadder than an adult who forgets how to be a child.
Alison Espach
#46. In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!
Bruce Coville
#47. Being an adult isn't a matter of age. It's a matter of responsibility.
Jonathan L. Howard
#48. Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.
Tom Bodett
#49. Freedom doesn't come with age. It doesn't magically appear when you're a legal adult. It comes when you stand up for what you believe in.
Krista Ritchie
#50. I turn and run, watching my feet trample a massacre of weeds. I mourn them. The only thing that grows is dandelions in the cracks of the sidewalk and we always end up killing them.
Ellie Lieberman
#51. My wishing star glowed slightly and winked back at me. I could almost hear its voice, tinkling like wind chimes and church bells, reassuring me that everything would return to normal.
Erica Sehyun Song
#52. Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood
#53. Florida is one of a few states that allows the prosecutor to decide to charge a child in adult court for certain crimes and has no minimum age for trying a child as an adult.
Bryan Stevenson
#54. I came to the age, at 20, that is hard to transfer to an adult. I had a good list of credits, but it's just hard. So I went out for parts when there were some, and I traveled a little, had some fun, and then met my husband.
Suzanne Crough
#55. Matteo lived inside her like a memory that paradoxically stopped the pain and which she could never get enough of ... because there was, and never would be, anything that was like him. Wherever she went, whatever she did, he was the only thing she truly loved, and which she sadly no longer had.
Llarjme
#56. Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.
Joan Anderson
#57. I knew that Jessie and I were going to be okay; I knew we were all going to be okay. And I had faith that wherever our individual paths led us would be exactly where we were always meant to be. For a girl that had never believed in anything, this realization meant everything.
Rose Fall
#58. The "modern man" has "come of age" as a deadly serious adult, conscious of his sufferings and alienations but not of joy, of sex but not of love, of science but not of "mystery.
Alexander Schmemann
#59. It's bewildering to me how you can just start chatting with a complete stranger on Facebook, and - next thing you know - it seems as if there's some intense connection with the person - or at least you feel that closeness and hope it's mutual
Zack Love
#60. Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and mistakes, trial and error, and now and again that feeling that you might have wings.
Megan Crane
#61. I'm going to turn my life around. Make a complete three sixty."
"Don't you mean one eighty?" he corrected. "If you do that, you'll end up right back where you started."
"Maybe. But at least I'll have a chance of coming out of it a different person - a better version of me.
Megan Duke
#62. The rain landed on my skin with a barely audible patter and changed the tempo of its repetitive dance, letting the wind change its course and angle. The cold soon seeped through my dress and into my bones. An iris from my garland fell in my lap.
Erica Sehyun Song
#63. Well, I never got into the young adult headspace. With 'Twilight,' they are pretty adult themes, aside from maybe the first one, but even that. They're very adult themes, actually, particularly as the characters age. I never wrote for young adults. I wrote for myself, as an audience.
Melissa Rosenberg
#64. Paradoxically, the more Michael kept me at a distance, the more I trusted him - perhaps because he was always willing to help me with tips and introductions even though he wanted absolutely nothing from me (and never reciprocated my nosiness with personal questions of his own with me).
Zack Love
#65. Apart from all this, I do of course have a real life. I sometimes have trouble believing in it, because it doesn't seem like the kind of life I could ever get away with, or deserve. This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone my age is an adult, whereas I m merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood
#66. We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.
Ron Paul
#67. But sometimes you have to make a decision with your heart instead of your head, and that's what I did. I know I've made the right decision even if it takes my brain a little while to catch up to my heart.
Marie Landry
#70. You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.
Daniel Handler
#71. Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?
Magenta Periwinkle
#72. In all the commotion, no one noticed that Minubar was missing or that Tanner, cynical and thrill- seeking, quick to crack and joke or start a fight, who had befriended Sevara at an early age and protected her until the last, was dead.
Damian Wampler
#73. When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.
Michael Morpurgo
#74. There were children playing on the commons. He thought of them as children, though he remembered thinking of himself as an adult at that age. Fifteen, sixteen years old.
James S.A. Corey
#75. But what if Oscar - "
"Breathes fire and threatens to cook you over a grill?"
"I was thinking what if he gets mad, but I think your way works as well."
"Then you shall make for a tasty meal.
Erica Sehyun Song
#76. Growing up with a name that rhymes with turkey - and jerky - was no great fun. But, as an adult, I tell you, being globally unique in the age of Google can be extremely helpful.
Clay Shirky
#77. Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#78. Filming is a very adult world, and you need to be with people your own age.
Georgie Henley
#79. I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.
Richard Madden
#80. For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.
Haley Joel Osment
#81. Too young to care; Too old to change.
Hafsa Shah
#82. You're not done growing. I see you sometimes thinking about shit, and I think you want more than to settle with life. You want to do more, but you're stuck. That's not age. That's a choice. Your life was stale because you settled.
Bijou Hunter
#84. The bitterest of ironies is that the people who make us feel the most accepted, secure, and whole are the same people who make us feel the most rejected, unstable, and heart broken.
Gume Laurel III
#85. I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down.
Bella James
#86. Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.
Khaled Hosseini
#87. The adult age begins with the blessed single strand of a grey hair.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#88. If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.
Diane Ackerman
#89. No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.
Bella James
#90. Learning to think for yourself is how you separate yourself from your parents and make the transition from being a child to being an adult, though part of maturity is being able to take opposing viewpoints into consideration.
Belle Blackburn
#91. The public library my parents took me to in Fort Worth had the children's section next to the SF/F section, so I was reading adult SF/F at a very young age.
Martha Wells
#93. I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.
Aidan Gillen
#94. I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.
Lois Lowry
#95. At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
Baz Luhrmann
#96. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
Frances McDormand
#97. You're at a tough age. You want to be treated like an adult, but you still want kid benefits." "I don't feel like a kid." "You're turning fourteen in a couple of months. Ever heard the expression: youth is wasted on the young?
Andrew Peterson
#98. I never thought I would die at the age of seventeen, so when I received the death message, I was a little freaked out.
Rebekkah Ford
#99. Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C.S. Lewis
#100. In an age when all that was old seems new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance. This book reminds me of one of the joys of being an adult-cocktail hour!
Graydon Carter
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