Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sex is the most important sort of adult play. If you can't relax here you never will — Alex Comfort Copy Share Image
Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems. — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously. — Georges Pompidou Copy Share Image
Everyone has to learn to work with people - it's part of being an adult, too. — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
When adults behave like Children and children like adults, life becomes chaotic. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me… — Lorde Copy Share Image
I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and… — Blake Judd Copy Share Image
If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while… — Seth Roberts Copy Share Image
When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It's a little bit annoying, because it feels like everybody's taking the power away from you. Everybody's taking your adult life away… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
“Adults play in many of the same ways that kids do: by using our minds' eyes to see ourselves in new and… — Ben Michaelis Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of seeming different and being criticized for what might seem to be losing or out of fashion; your… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Now it's fantastic, this is a medium that adults should be able to enjoy, it's not just for our kids. I feel… — Rachael MacFarlane Copy Share Image
Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult. — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults. — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China. — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
