We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups,… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
The 'militia' was the entire adult male citizenry, who were not simply allowed to keep their own arms, but affirmatively required to… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
Time and space are absolute. Diseases are evil spirits that inhabit the body. Parallel lines never meet. The earth is the center… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education. — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
there is a world, in a far-flung corner of our galaxy, where women have no nipples and motor cars, though legally capable… — Trevor Beattie Copy Share Image
After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
There's simply no way you can tell a woman you work with that you disapprove of her relationship with her adult child,… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh. — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults. — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've been with that project [ Sausage Party] since its inception, since they wrote the script. It took them four years to… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
The entire time I was following the feelings experienced by children, so the feeling of not understanding what adults say was very… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes- all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering… — Bob Black 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
Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
It was actually what my dad did and with the Muppets, the years with the Muppets, it was really all targeted to… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
You're either a rationalist, or you're not. And the good news is a recent poll found 20% of adults under 30 say… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Such movies are always a danger...falling in love is something most adults have actually experienced...The theme is universal and encourages...unhealthy comparisons...why can't… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice. — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
I think kids like chaos, in an interesting way. I think kids like to push buttons in adults. They like to antagonize… — Jason Lee Copy Share Image
Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets,… — Eliot Wigginton Copy Share Image
Sex is the most important sort of adult play. If you can't relax here you never will — Alex Comfort Copy Share Image
The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image