I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love. — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We… — B. J. Fogg Copy Share Image
An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and… — Roy Barnes Copy Share Image
I sometimes find that my family's emphasis on stories, characters, and art that appeals directly to children rather than over their heads… — Mike Berenstain Copy Share Image
I mean, everyone has to calm down sometime. I'll still smoke up and party, but yeah, eventually you gotta settle down and… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Meadowlark inspired me to play for a long time. I thought, 'If he could do it, I can do it.' The legacy… — Robert Parish Copy Share Image
When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most… — Dara Horn 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
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
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
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
Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Children go through things. They go through fads, mistakes, phases, and adults are supposed to guide them. — Will Cain Copy Share Image
If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Adults are the first and foremost teachers of love, peace, truth, tolerance, happiness and spirituality to their children. No school on Earth… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
“On occasion, it occurs to adults that they are allowed to do all the things that being a child prevented them from… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Except, I think, it's more about me growing up and becoming an adult that I have this new best-friend type of relationship… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument. — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas. — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
“The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country. — James Woods Copy Share Image
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking. — Tony Attwood Copy Share Image
