Let me tell you something: for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“We are not sure what we will become, only what we want to and don’t want to. We often become what we… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“That’s a tough pill to swallow because we’re not children or dependents; we’re adults. To support an idea, we need to understand… — Travis Bradberry Copy Share Image
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged. — Saul Landau Copy Share Image
Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive. — Gayle Rubin Copy Share Image
“Adults tend to be more understanding and accepting of differences than teenagers. The important thing is to find a group that your… — Chantal Sicile-Kira Copy Share Image
A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood… — Dan Byrd Copy Share Image
The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the… — Roger Wicker Copy Share Image
His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I like movies that work on two levels - like The Simpsons, kids can watch it and adults can watch it. Teenagers… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Suffering is our best teacher because it hangs onto us and keeps us in its grip until we have learnt that particular… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If nothing has helped you decide, go ask a child. Children know what they need, and more surprisingly, the know what we… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
It's a little known fact, but parents are like superheroes. With just a few magic words they can make you feel ten… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness… This would be so even if there… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States. — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a… — John Grant Copy Share Image
It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy. — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Why can't relationships come with an instruction manual for unsophisticated adults like me?” — Maria Grazia Swan Copy Share Image
When you're a kid going on being an adult, everything radiates so deeply and resonates so passionately, and I like the opportunity… — Joseph McGinty Nichol Copy Share Image
You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love. — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
“If you're referring to yourself as a 'grown-up', then you're still totally a kid. 'Grown ups' call themselves adults” — Chelsea Fine Copy Share Image
Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for… — August Derleth Copy Share Image
I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely… — Neil Gaiman 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
Very, very few adults possess so much charm that they can long be supported by another adult based on that attribute alone. — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
