Albert [Brooks] was rare in that he could make adults laugh. He was a prodigy. At age 15 and 16, he could… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school.… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
In using the terms play and playfulness, I do not intend to suggest any lack of seriousness; quite the contrary. Anyone who… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
When it comes to romance, adults are entitled to their own choices, even their own mistakes. Say your peace, offer your opinion,… — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
The popular idea of a role model implies that an adult's influence on a child is primarily occupational, and that all a… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth.… — Lewis Terman Copy Share Image
I'm 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Having pets can teach us a lot of things. For kids, they are often their first lesson in responsibility, and being responsible… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I accepted the forgiveness of God. I got off track as an adult and because I believe in God's grace, I believe… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties… — Mildred Armstrong Kalish Copy Share Image
A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first… — Lala Lajpat Rai Copy Share Image
Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Everybody dreams, but memory for dreams is famously elusive. Even Sigmund Freud, without the benefit of modern technology's electroencephalogram, or EEG, did… — Charles McPhee Copy Share Image
What we have lived through, the 20th century, has been like a great party. Adults now have had the best time humanity… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
I think it's almost necessary for most people to have the freedom to pull back, and then re-enter at an adult level,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English,… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender.… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
If I'm going to do something a little bit more adult, I'll do it if it's going to be on at a… — Melissa Joan Hart Copy Share Image
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
I grew up an only child, so I was so much more adult. My eldest daughter is 10, and I was so… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
As an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest. I mean, I like a good thrill. Thrillers are my… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's a lot easier to make friends when you're younger, because kids are a lot less judgmental than adults. They're more like,… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
This is the great thing about writing for kids. Adults might not do anything if they recognized me. But if they do… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
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