Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Right from the start my parents had left me to fend for myself. Apparently unaware that I was a kid, they invariably… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
As an adult, I think I wanna be living in New York City and help a lot of homeless people and try… — Rachel Trachtenburg Copy Share Image
While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it.… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Mistaken regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human life tend to… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
“Your lives are set out for you. You’ll become adults, then before you’re old, before you’re even middle-aged, you’ll start to donate… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
In my journey to becoming an artist who writes, I tend to start my idea process with simple, concrete messages that relate… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
Children smile 400 times a day on average ... adults 15 times. Children laugh 150 times a day ... adults 6 times… — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Children are bad enough--children are rude, selfish, greedy, and unthinking individuals who are unable to distinguish between their own selfish wants and… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his… — Frances Gray Patton Copy Share Image
If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument,… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will.… — George Will Copy Share Image
Young persons, because of their immaturity, may not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions and should therefore benefit from less severe… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
So many of us have abdicated our passions for obligations, as if passion is a luxury for the young, and we must… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my… — Anna Popplewell Copy Share Image
What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The entire time I was following the feelings experienced by children, so the feeling of not understanding what adults say was very… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
“You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adults.'' ''Compatibility is for my… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be… — Adam Fletcher Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I always say to myself that if I can make a movie that makes a kid smile or gives them some hope… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
