“If you're referring to yourself as a 'grown-up', then you're still totally a kid. 'Grown ups' call themselves adults” — Chelsea Fine Copy Share Image
You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love. — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for… — August Derleth Copy Share Image
I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough. — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere that many adults with advanced IQs are often less happy than those who test average.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
There is one message children can never hear enough as they grow up, and adults should never forget as long as they… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say in all situations, but a lot of times kids can be the most reasonable people around because they don't… — RJ Mitte Copy Share Image
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
Dimitri: "Rose, I'm seven years older than you. In ten years, that won't mean so much, but for now, it's huge. I'm… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Let's review the cost-free techniques that we've learned so far for raising an achievement-oriented, obedient, drug-free, virgin adult: Calamity, Praise, Local Theater,… — Tina Fey 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
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
“Apparently, now and again adults take the time to sit down and contemplate what a disaster their life is. They complain without… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Although we like to think of young children's lives as free of troubles, they are in fact filled with disappointment and frustration.… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Youth Ministry, as traditionally organized, has also suffered the impact of social changes. Young people often fail to find responses to their… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children. — Donna Shalala Copy Share Image
In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We've got babies raising babies, and it's important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to… — Alonzo Mourning Copy Share Image
It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements. — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and… — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their… — Brian Bosworth Copy Share Image
A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
