Let go of the things you don't love about your childhood, and keep the things you love. Let go of the things… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult. — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you… — Victoria Pratt Copy Share Image
I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie. — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
My dad and mom were more like World War II-era parents, even though it was the 1960s, because they were both born… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with… — Luigi Ghirri Copy Share Image
This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
Kids are natural little outdoor people. It is we, the adults, who turn them into indoor people. If you don't get of… — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the… — Jean Arthur Copy Share Image
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do? — Ingrid Law Copy Share Image
When you're a kid, you have no power. You're physically small and weak, and adults are constantly telling you what to do.… — Paul Waldman Copy Share Image
Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns… — Henry C. Link Copy Share Image
There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
When I lost my father, I thought I learned about grief and transition. However, nobody tells you what it's like to lose… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those… — John Green Copy Share Image
This is the great thing about writing for kids. Adults might not do anything if they recognized me. But if they do… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I've worked in several different places, most of my experience comes from spending eight summers at a camp for adults with a… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Now, I meant to talk about something else earlier on, and I've forgotten what it was. I've remembered what it is again,… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids. — David Rolf Copy Share Image
There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I… — Julius Erving Copy Share Image
After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing… — Wayne Allard 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
Kids love watching adults act like children. It's that spirit they can relate to. — James Roday Copy Share Image
I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I was deliberately trying to express how possible it might be for unmarried men and adults not blessed with biological children to… — Mamoru Hosoda Copy Share Image
When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
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