I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person. — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material.… — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
When you're a kid going on being an adult, everything radiates so deeply and resonates so passionately, and I like the opportunity… — Joseph McGinty Nichol Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for my children, who are slowly emerging to become their own wonderful, interesting, compassionate young adults - which makes me… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult. — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
We often marvel at how introverted, geeky, kid 'blossom' into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Some adults would rather pretend that bad things dont exist than to talk about them. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Much of the message that I try to put across to students is that they have to figure out what they really… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something: for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal. — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
I made some friends at Listerine and they taught me a little bit about oral care. That half of adults suffer from… — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like 'Saturday Night Live' forces you to realize that no… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for… — Irving Kristol 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
Our panaceas cure but few ails, our general hospitals are private and exclusive. We must set up another Hygeia than is now… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
