I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those… — John Green Copy Share Image
I end up liking politicians, both left and right, who talk about political matters as if they are addressing a bunch of… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Despite their tremendous talent, (NBA players) are still, by and large, young adults, seeking validation from an authority figure, and there is… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Having to act like an adult because I was directing a big movie but also feeling like a child because we had… — Todd Strauss-Schulson Copy Share Image
As an adult, I'm not supposed to go down slides. So if I'm at the top of a slide, I have to… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
This book blew me away. Kelly Parra writes with the keen eye of an artist. Graffiti Girl is warm, gutsy, and true-to-life… — Anne Frasier Copy Share Image
“It was them and not them, maybe the ones they’d never been. I could almost see those others standing in the garden… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
International adoption does not begin to solve the problems of the world's orphaned children. It's truly not the answer. At the same… — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I tend to not use the word "socialist," because even though more young adults in the United States in a poll say… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than… — Jan Hunt Copy Share Image
Andy [Hallett] was a real man - you can tell an adult by how they deal with pain or adversity. Andy's eyeballs… — James Marsters Copy Share Image
I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
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We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
That was probably the most important fight of my career...he was this crazy guy, who acted like most adults that I knew… — Roy Jones Jr Copy Share Image
Governor Christie's decision today violates the individual drive of men and women who no longer want to be tormented by unwanted homosexual… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
“They repeat the exercise done with children, with a range of adults working in the school. They ask questions like, ‘What is… — Mary Myatt Copy Share Image
I'm an adult and I know what power means in the modern world. In the modern world, power is mainly defined by… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
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When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
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It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
People think the film industry is going to corrupt me, but I feel like it's kept me more innocent, in a way.… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
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Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren't somebody's parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Calvin: Trick or Treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
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It's about transitioning from adolescence, when you live together with parents and see each other every day, to the era when you… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
The great news is that overwhelmingly far more than adults, youth already care about the environment. Young people are recognizing that we… — Philippe Cousteau, Jr Copy Share Image
We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
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