We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure. — Mike Penner Copy Share Image
Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain. — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking… — Susan Olsen Copy Share Image
I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
“Most adults are just hollowed out. You watch them try to fill themselves up with booze or money or God or fame… — John Green Copy Share Image
We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In America, as was the topic earlier about polygamy, consenting adults are supposed to do - be able to do whatever they… — Max Kellerman Copy Share Image
Now, I meant to talk about something else earlier on, and I've forgotten what it was. I've remembered what it is again,… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa,… — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
I think we should allow for schools within schools, where 100 out of 500 kids may be organized by the way they… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Conservatives want to be your daddy, telling you what to do and what not to do. Liberals want to be your mommy,… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You're a kid, your whole life is awesome. It's awesome, right? You had no money, no ID, no cell phone, no nothing,… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis… — David Berman Copy Share Image
If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
That we need help is easy to see every time we walk down the street. The experts confirm what the obscured view… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Because of what I experienced when I was a kid, I want kids to have that kind of an epiphany moment, that… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
We are watching people who've been educated in the public school system and in colleges for the last 25 or 30 years… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults. — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it? — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I'm a grinder…I've never taken more than a week off in my adult life. I truly believe work is a virtue, it… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth. — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that.… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Many people's unhappiness is rooted in the habitual role they play. While our family role may have made sense growing up, it… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an… — Indiana Evans Copy Share Image
I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter. — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead. — William Landay Copy Share Image
When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make… — Anna Chlumsky Copy Share Image
Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
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