There are few successful adults who were not first successful children. — Alexander Chase Copy Share Image
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man! — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have. — Victor Frederick Weisskopf Copy Share Image
Growing up is hard enough. When you have to deal with adults all day, it's just that much more difficult. — Cris Collinsworth Copy Share Image
Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one. — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
“The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Right from the start my parents had left me to fend for myself. Apparently unaware that I was a kid, they invariably… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
In terms of my relationships with a lot of the adult characters, when I was working with Harrison, it wasn't like a… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Those who see what's obvious aren't necessarily brighter than others. They're just more likely to observe that the emperor is naked. Like… — Richard Farson Copy Share Image
Young children learn in a different manner from that of older children and adults, yet we can teach them many things if… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties,… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
The American child is a highly intelligent human being; characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, has a strong sense of excitement,… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her. — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sex is the most important sort of adult play. If you can't relax here you never will — Alex Comfort Copy Share Image
Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems. — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
