#adult

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#command #commandments #commit #covet #kill

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America. ↗

— Robert Crumb

#adult life #america #contempt #had #i

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#the-silver-metal-lover #young-adult #age

I have three adult children, and I have four grandchildren. I want to stop the deficits. I want to make sure that we're not passing on to my children and my grandchildren deficits and that we cannot repay and that they will have to repay and maybe they won't be able to repay them. ↗

— Doug Hoffman

#adult #cannot #children #deficits #four

The only thing an adult can give a child is time. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#child #give #only #the only thing #thing

Love, Jamie P.S. I can't believe you're dying. Please don't die. ↗

— Adam Rapp

#love

My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California. ↗

— Pete McCloskey

#california #half #i #lives #our

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am. ↗

— Mandy Moore

#age #am #because #i #i am

I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk. ↗

— James Patterson

#buzz #cats #conversations #female #friends

You know, the world is all about balance. You lose something here... maybe somebody else picks it up over there. ↗

— Natasha Larry

#short-stories #young-adult-fantasy #attitude