There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.” — David Richo Copy Share Image
Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school.… — Ezra Koenig Copy Share Image
I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults. — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Already published reports, as well as our own observations indicate that smallpox vaccination sometimes produces manifestations of leukemia. In children and adults… — Julian Aleksandrowicz Copy Share Image
Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
There's an element of realism to it. I immersed myself more in the subject as a young adult. Then I started to… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
“Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The strengths a young person finds in adults at this time-their willingness to let him experiment, their eagerness to confirm him at… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
“It occurred to Raule that all children were monsters in the world and were instinctively aware of it. They were reminded of… — K.J. Bishop Copy Share Image
“I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“If we use child in a good sense (it has also legitimately a bad one) we must not allow that to push… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility.… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I've been an exercise maniac most of my adult life, running marathons and triathlons, doing that as a regular way of life.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove… — Julie Smith Copy Share Image
Gay adults start as gay kids... Now they've got to figure out how to be with each other and be with family,… — Peter Paige Copy Share Image
“The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“What you did was enough," I said. "We didn't need a superhero. Just an adult who acted to help us when I… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life. — Randi Weingarten Copy Share Image
We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time. — Gary Webb Copy Share Image
We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
My first work in comics had an Adult theme and I had to create a nom du plume to separate that work… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
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