A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child's hand and imagination to grasp. A… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
My dream is to make families a place where adults with high self esteem can develop. I think we have reached a… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
My interest, perhaps, came out of the trauma of being a young immigrant in this country and constantly feeling my "resident alien"… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate… — Alexander Waugh Copy Share Image
Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought… — Lee Kuan Yew 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 are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really… — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I would write songs, little plays, and poetry in school. If you're an adult and you're a… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books… — Anita Silvey Copy Share Image
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
I remember being young and people passing me things under the bathroom to sign, like under the stall. Like adults. We were… — Jodi Sweetin Copy Share Image
The single difference between films for children and films for adults is that in films for children, there is always the option… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a man who just absorbs information and people and experiences. And I've witnessed him firsthand with his five children,… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don't the adult around here just say something? Say it so they know… — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have. — Victor Frederick Weisskopf Copy Share Image
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion,… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore. — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you… — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Yes, my dolls were the beginning. Obviously there was a convulsive flavor to them because they reflected my anxiety and unhappiness. To… — Hans Bellmer Copy Share Image
I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one. — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
