So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements. — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear someone describe something as a 'kids movie' or a 'family movie,' it immediately has a negative connotation in my… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may… — Joe Manchin Copy Share Image
Parents are never forgiven for not giving just the right response at the appropriate moment. Or, rather, there are particular times in… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
I think it is an intelligent story [The Intruders]. You've got adult characters who are in search of some things that are… — Glen Morgan Copy Share Image
A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument. — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
People who concern themselves with the rights of other adults who engage in consensual acts involving sex, love, and/or eating croissants together… — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Most adults have dropped out of the school of life before they reached adulthood.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When you were kids, you can tell when an adult is bad or good; and I think people can feel that I'm… — Jason David Frank Copy Share Image
No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin -… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged. — Saul Landau Copy Share Image
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