“Adults think they're wielding power, but really power is wielding them” — John Green Copy Share Image
The traditional role of the Senate has been to be the adult in the room. — Kay Bailey Hutchison Copy Share Image
Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them! — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Only the best are waiting for you since you've made an adult breakthrough. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.” — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
I went out with the mayor. I'm adult, and that was my decision. — Jennifer Carpenter Copy Share Image
When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me. — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
You realize your childhood is over when... you take a nap on the couch and wake up on the couch. — Adrian P Copy Share Image
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.' — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves. — Norman Macleod Copy Share Image
“She was as lovely sleeping as she was dripping in sensuality at the fundraiser” — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
“But there is something that’s a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That’s what it means… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they… — David Almond Copy Share Image
In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we… — Bahman Ghobadi Copy Share Image
There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys… — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
A huge part of what a kid learns when they're growing up is social and emotional development. As adults, we take it… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
I took care of young adults with cystic fibrosis when I was in my residency training and found this to be a… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
If you have parents with a healthy relationship, you don't learn that you don't have to be married. I thought being a… — Alyssa Milano Copy Share Image
I'm not used to be the adult. I'm not very good at being the adult. To some regard, I wanted to just… — Jamie Linden Copy Share Image
As children we were bombarded by competing answers. Church says one thing, school another. Now as adults it's no surprise that if… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the… — Barbara Hershey Copy Share Image
It became obvious to me that the generation who changed the world were my parents' generation, and not only in terms of… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
I always figured there would be a kid audience and an adult audience, and there is. That's true for 'Hunger Games' and… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
You have kids growing up in some of the worst circumstances financially, living in some of the worst ghettos, and they succeed.… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
As a child, I always enjoyed - my parents used to have these little cocktail parties - and I always loved trying… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
“What happened to you as a child, particularly something bad, changed you, absolutely and completely. It was like part of your brain… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
As an adult, I've always found the stereotype that Jews are liberal a curious one; my parents' circle was predominantly conservative, not… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“Was this, too, part of growing up? Was it facing the bad things you’d done as well as the good, and knowing… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
Even the very youngest children already are perfectly able to discriminate between the imaginary and the real, whether in books or movies… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Now that I'm an adult, I can finally be the kid I always wanted to be.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly. — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
