When you're a kid going on being an adult, everything radiates so deeply and resonates so passionately, and I like the opportunity… — Joseph McGinty Nichol Copy Share Image
“Why can't relationships come with an instruction manual for unsophisticated adults like me?” — Maria Grazia Swan Copy Share Image
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive. — Gayle Rubin Copy Share Image
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged. — Saul Landau Copy Share Image
And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
There’s no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It’s not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're not really sure why it [broken circadian rhythm] continues, but when they become adults, we usually have to treat it because… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has… — Cheryl Richardson Copy Share Image
There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Our current draconian laws prohibiting the use of marijuana by responsible adults are doubly flawed. Not only does such prohibition violate fundamental… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
The children are our future. And that is why, ultimately, we're screwed unless we do something about it. If you haven't noticed,… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
“That’s a tough pill to swallow because we’re not children or dependents; we’re adults. To support an idea, we need to understand… — Travis Bradberry Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something: for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
My first work in comics had an Adult theme and I had to create a nom du plume to separate that work… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
“We are not sure what we will become, only what we want to and don’t want to. We often become what we… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness… This would be so even if there… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married… — Mallory Ortberg 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
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
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
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
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 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