What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults. — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Do you think if it was the fairy tale about a man who lived inside of a whale and it was religion… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails. Because it would necessarily affect the… — Stewart Dalzell Copy Share Image
As you become an adult and start to make your way in life, you realize how much your friends are your family… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
The adult must seem to mislead the child, and the Master the dog. They misread the signs. Their ignorance and their wishes… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
I suspect that someday in a world with legal marijuana for adults, you will probably have branding that occurs for different types… — Jared Huffman Copy Share Image
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image