#adult

To be adult is to be alone. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#alone

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker. ↗

— Dora Russell

#assume #child #naturally #right #smaller

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#adulthood #disadvantaged #force #house #one-quarter

a true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #humility #leadership #strength

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#adult #average #better #boy #bright

She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet. ↗

— Jefferson Smith

#body-image #bones #dieting #fantasy #feet

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#books #compensated #i #large #large numbers

I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#adulthood #peter-pan-syndrome #age

I work in a restaurant in an airport in Taiwan. I am eighteen years old and I don’t like my job because everyone gets on planes and leaves. And I want to leave too. ↗

— Kerem Mermutlu

#teen #young-adult-fiction #age

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. ↗

— Leonardo Sciascia

#film #films #grew #i #involved