The moment you decide that you're a grownup now, and therefore must put away foolish things like staying out all night or… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“There is no group therapy or psychiatry or community social services for the child who must cope with the thing under the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. I… — Sloane Crosley 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
I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Milk is for babies. Human beings are the only species that drinks milk into adulthood and besides that we prefer to drink… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
“Over time, from trial and error, and one experience after another, you start to become more familiar with yourself. You learn what… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
The responsibility of building leadership in the Church belongs to the father and the mother. . . . As youth grow and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
“Whenever someone brings up the traits associated with being a functional human otherwise known as an "adult," I think, is this even… — Alida Nugent Copy Share Image
Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“On occasion, it occurs to adults that they are allowed to do all the things that being a child prevented them from… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“He welcomes the chance to do fatherly things with the little girl, and those ten morning minutes with dear little four-year-old Ruby,… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“Even if the system is obsessed with adulthood, it does not raise "adults"; it rewards permanent adolescence. The intellect is numbed by… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Adults have the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct. When we “grow… — Alberto Alvaro Ríos Copy Share Image
What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body.… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“I remember everything,' Bette Midler flatly notes. 'But you know how in life, you tend to hold grudges? Well, I don’t do… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the… — Arnold Adoff Copy Share Image
For me the breakthrough was the realization that I wasn't the center of the universe or even the centre of my own… — Shaun Micallef Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
“We were girls, you see, not even women, just girls, most of us when we started. And the boys were just boys,… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“Oh, monsters are scared', said Lettie. 'And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, 'I'm… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Youth is a gift that goes largely unappreciated by its proprietor. Like a single raindrop falling on hot pavement it evaporates before… — Rob Wood Copy Share Image
“Adulthood brings with it the pernicious illusion of control, and perhaps even depends on it. I mean that mirage of dominion over… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking,… — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not… — David Richo Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Defining yourself in terms of how you rank is always dangerous and ultimately immature. It doesn't matter whether the rank has to… — Leonard Sax Copy Share Image
