In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Now it's fantastic, this is a medium that adults should be able to enjoy, it's not just for our kids. I feel… — Rachael MacFarlane Copy Share Image
Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
“Is this what it’s like for adults? When we were in school, we wanted to do nothing but travel the world and… — Noah Harris Copy Share Image
The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult… — John Green Copy Share Image
One of the greatest struggles of becoming an adult is figuring out what you want to do and what makes you happy.… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Basque is one of the world's more alarming languages. Only a handful of adult foreigners, they say, have ever managed to learn… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Time and space are absolute. Diseases are evil spirits that inhabit the body. Parallel lines never meet. The earth is the center… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing for both kids and adults, though I think I'm better at children's stories because I was a teacher for… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“In his play he is no longer an onlooker merely; he is a part of the busy world of adults. He is… — Caroline Pratt Copy Share Image
Especially with the video games and social media we have now, I think that turning point from kid to sort of adult… — Gage Munroe Copy Share Image
I think that there comes a point in the life of every young person to break away from the intimacy that they… — Polixeni Papapetrou Copy Share Image
A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is… — Barry Privett Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
It's a little bit annoying, because it feels like everybody's taking the power away from you. Everybody's taking your adult life away… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of seeming different and being criticized for what might seem to be losing or out of fashion; your… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Adults play in many of the same ways that kids do: by using our minds' eyes to see ourselves in new and… — Ben Michaelis Copy Share Image
I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark, where my… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land… — Walden Bello Copy Share Image
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I've worked in several different places, most of my experience comes from spending eight summers at a camp for adults with a… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about… — Sophie Marceau Copy Share Image
In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
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