We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“You two are children almost grown. Your hearts have not hardened to the realities of the world. Your dreams have not fallen… — Laura Lam Copy Share Image
When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money. — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
The Children's Justice Campaign reminds us of our sacred obligation as adults to raise ourselves into consciousness so that our children may… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults. — Jay London Copy Share Image
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children. — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
Perhaps the single most important point for parents to follow is the importance of giving goals to a child. And the most… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“According to management professors Daniel Levin, Jorge Walter, and Keith Murnighan, “adults accumulate thousands of relationships over their lifetimes, but, prior to… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
My father was from a secular Jewish family and my mother from a nominally Christian (Episcopalian) one. They were not religious as… — Mike Berenstain Copy Share Image
Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Some people discard their childhood like an old hat. They forget about it like a phone number that's no longer valid. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult,… — Tyler Blackburn Copy Share Image
Do you think if it was the fairy tale about a man who lived inside of a whale and it was religion… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the… — Pearl S. Buck 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
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
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
Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
My dad and mom were more like World War II-era parents, even though it was the 1960s, because they were both born… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
My interest, perhaps, came out of the trauma of being a young immigrant in this country and constantly feeling my "resident alien"… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
People treat people as adults, not children, and they'll make adult decisions - responsible decisions. — Will Cain Copy Share Image
I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth… — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world,… — Agyness Deyn Copy Share Image
There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion,… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
I would hope that wherever Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and Fiona get played is where I'd be played. And right now that… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of… — Graham Nelson Copy Share Image
Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I like getting to be in the adult world a little bit and then getting to be in the mom world and… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
