People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only… — Czeslaw Milosz 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
Right from the start my parents had left me to fend for myself. Apparently unaware that I was a kid, they invariably… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
I've always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it. — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
I’m not a child. Don’t talk to me like I am. (Kiara) No, you’re worse. You’re an adult who still thinks the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But there's a reason that we have different laws for juveniles than we do for adults. And it's because kids are not… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
As a mother, anything to do with my children, whether it's supporting their school or programs that support their education and enrichment.… — Trista Sutter Copy Share Image
It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive. — Gayle Rubin Copy Share Image
I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life. — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative,… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
Surfing is kind of a good metaphor for the rest of life. The extremely good stuff - chocolate and great sex and… — Jaimal Yogis Copy Share Image
Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
