The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds… — Olara Otunnu Copy Share Image
Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.” — Margaret A. Edwards Copy Share Image
The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children. — Rumi Copy Share Image
When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date.… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an… — Roddy McDowall Copy Share Image
Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who… — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
...a college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those… — Leroy S Rouner Copy Share Image
In America, I get a lot of younger kids, but there's teens and adults too, ... In Europe, for some reason, I… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was… — Kenneth H. Cooper Copy Share Image
The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Mistaken regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human life tend to… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are certain functions that the family performs. In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction,… — Adrian Wilson Copy Share Image
“But I think parents aren't teachers anymore. Parents -- or a whole lot of us, at least -- lead by mouth instead… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It's 2014, and adults are still writing articles about whether other adults should read comic books or not. — Jamie McKelvie Copy Share Image
I wish for myself as an adult that I cared less what people thought of me, especially people who don't know me. — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults. — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you… — Cat Power Copy Share Image
I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US. — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
“Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
