Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes. — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
“As a very young person, I was ready and willing to explore and try new things, unhampered by the daily routines that… — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the White… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
“The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time. — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16. — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working,… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I think the main thing that we can do as adults helping young people to find the joy in reading, whether we're… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think it's a very stark marker of what kind of president we have that, from all available evidence, Donald Trump has… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it.… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the time we begin school, if not sooner, we are taught to be blind to our assets and only see our… — Dawna Markova 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
With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is… — Barry Privett Copy Share Image
Just plain logic says that the war on drugs does not work. It absolutely does not work. We have this highly addictive… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Some favorite expressions of small children: "It's not my fault...They made me do it...I forgot." Some favorite expressions of adults: "It's not… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else. — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts… — Lilian Katz Copy Share Image
All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to… — Maria Montessori 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
As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an… — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
Most of the so-called illegal drugs have vastly increased in use, despite billions of dollars spent suppressing them. I believe 750,000 Americans… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
As far as in my adult life, it kinda started (with) writing first 'cause I went to school in Nashville. I mean,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
