I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals. — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“Children are genius in the matters of making life fun and in the matters of making life unbearable, the adults are genius!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being an Author who writes and advocates about tough things people go through in life; the Holy Spirit encourages me to encourage… — Stellah Mupanduki Copy Share Image
My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
An age where you feel like you could love anyone, where you put everything on the line for the smallest of things.… — Ryu Si-won Copy Share Image
I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Despite their tremendous talent, (NBA players) are still, by and large, young adults, seeking validation from an authority figure, and there is… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
I end up liking politicians, both left and right, who talk about political matters as if they are addressing a bunch of… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Having to act like an adult because I was directing a big movie but also feeling like a child because we had… — Todd Strauss-Schulson Copy Share Image
It's just if one person says anything it becomes click bait and then they start talking about the comedy climate which is… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
There are so many shocking things. Is it more shocking that there are children sold into slavery in every city in the… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
Compliant children are very easily led when they are young, because they thrive on approval and pleasing adults. They are just aseasily… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
Most of the so-called illegal drugs have vastly increased in use, despite billions of dollars spent suppressing them. I believe 750,000 Americans… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime.… — Fredric Wertham Copy Share Image
From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Like Summer Sisters comforted me just because I was like, okay things I've seen with my own eyes are not so terrible,… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
And they just slam the door. And they don't peek into that land any more. And they forget that teens and tweens… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults. — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace? — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear. — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been. — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller -… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
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