She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time. — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldnt do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that,… — Olesya Rulin Copy Share Image
Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way. — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation… — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
We need to actually teach kids that books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat every bit on your plate. It's… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys--and plenty of leisure and scope… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I've always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You know, this is why I just don't answer the door (unless I know who's arriving). I don't want to fend off… — Ann Althouse Copy Share Image
In personal conversations between director and actor, the male directors that I've worked with are just as emotional. Maybe it's because I… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“But I think parents aren't teachers anymore. Parents -- or a whole lot of us, at least -- lead by mouth instead… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
Children...need most of the same things adults need--consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are… — Caroline Pratt Copy Share Image
“Society ends up with the adults it deserves. It's just a little more obvious nowadays.” — Ake Edwardson Copy Share Image
Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it. — Allison Winn Scotch Copy Share Image
I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
“You should just sit them down and make them tell you. Make them be adults." "You can't make anyone be an adult.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation. — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
I prefer children because they are honest. They don't want anything from you other than to have fun. Adults have let me… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
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