Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Stealing money from your parents - I feel like I did that a lot and I now know as an adult that… — Cameron Esposito Copy Share Image
Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables. — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over. — Morgan Brittany Copy Share Image
“Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children already ignore others and take time on their own, and I think that is something adults should refer back to as… — Farrah Abraham Copy Share Image
I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I… — Elinor Lipman Copy Share Image
Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“Adults don’t have the same growth momentum that children do to help enable and amplify progress. In adults, change comes from hard… — Melissa Orlov Copy Share Image
It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools:… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes we adopt certain beliefs when we're children and use them automatically when we become adults, without ever checking them out against… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
Some favorite expressions of small children: "It's not my fault...They made me do it...I forgot." Some favorite expressions of adults: "It's not… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
When we worship you in the form of bread... we always see you as an adult. But every year at Christmas, you… — Chiara Lubich Copy Share Image
Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet,… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
I never thought when I was a kid that I would become an adult. I never thought of myself as having any… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“They where like so many of the adults around us, content to pretend that all was well…but we knew better” — Melba Pattillo Beals Copy Share Image
I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you… — Victoria Pratt Copy Share Image
We're all family at the end of the day - connected to other members of our family as adults or children. — Jo Frost Copy Share Image
Defendants have not explained how allowing same-sex marriage between two consenting adults will at all prevent heterosexual spouses from caring for their… — Kristine G. Baker Copy Share Image
I'd like to see people worry less about their inner child and more about their outer adult. — Ron Bennington Copy Share Image
The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult? — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'...You can't… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Kids play make-believe all the time, so they tend to be better at using their imaginations than adults. — Adam Rubin Copy Share Image
I think it's funny how people think they are adults just because they're over 18. It's not about your age, it's about… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality… — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
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