If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
“Deep inside, we’re all just playing at being adults. Because we’ll never be better than the people we were at six, or… — Emily Hemmer Copy Share Image
For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility. — Dexter Fletcher Copy Share Image
With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I became an adult before I had a kid, which I highly recommend. I just like to throw her around. She's a… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults. — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
We're all being segregated or sent to our different rooms to watch television that's geared only for adults, to be honest. There's… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I have a mouse, but don't have a mouse driver for MINIX and have never felt the need to write one. Typing… — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
I didn't ask to become a role model, but it was thrust upon all of us, regardless of whether you acknowledge it.… — Nick Jonas Copy Share Image
I've really dreamed of doing television. All of us do television, coming up. But when I was coming up, television was a… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad.” — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“We don’t become adults when we start making love, we become adults when we stop playing” — Ela Crain Copy Share Image
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
If we want to raise young adults who know how to solve problems, we must let them have problems to solve while… — Wendy Mogel Copy Share Image
It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices,… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have. — Jim McKay Copy Share Image
It's easier to see children as mini adults than it is to imagine or to remember what it is to be a… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
