I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults. — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
“But we don’t get do-overs as adults,” I say. “When you do something, it’s done, and then you have to live with… — Elle Casey Copy Share Image
Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.” — Karen White Copy Share Image
Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
It's exciting being around people who are adults - I actually race out the door in the morning and shout, 'Bye!' — Davinia Taylor Copy Share Image
This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from… — David Foster Copy Share Image
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was… — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
Grown adults often tell me that they used to sit, as children with their parents, and watch '3rd Rock from the Sun,'… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are… — John Green Copy Share Image
Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that… — Avi Copy Share Image
Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Parents are led to believe that they must be consistent, that is, always respond to the same issue the same way. Consistency… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
I want to keep working. I want to step away from young adult fiction. I want to do theater periodically - Farragut… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
“Courage was no that hard to come by for children. No matter the hardships they faced, given a little love and encouragement,… — Sophie Littlefield Copy Share Image
Social solidarity must rest (instead) on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility… — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline. — R. J. Reynolds Copy Share Image
How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“You're a kid,' said Alexandra. 'There is no just about it. Only adults say just a kid and what the heck do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior… — Dwight Henry Copy Share Image
The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I get very concerned when we start hearing people who want to convert this country into a safe place for children. I… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
“I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your… — Mike Ditka Copy Share Image
I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
