I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I just don't understand, if they see numbers [of CEO salaries]that represent people, how they can somehow skirt around that and morally… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school.… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
As the mother of six, Karen Santorum knows the power of stories to shape and mold the nature of our children. In… — Janet Parshall Copy Share Image
Mistaken regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human life tend to… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
When you practice Dynamic Meditation for the first time this will be difficult, because we have suppressed the body so much that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress. — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior… — Dwight Henry Copy Share Image
My parents' loss was compensated by the birth of my son Aryan and daughter Suhana. I believe they're my parents. In comparison… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while… — Seth Roberts Copy Share Image
I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread. But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored,… — R.S. Vern Copy Share Image
Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
When I went into Bobby's World, I had no idea it would be a success. I had been doing the Bobby voice… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.' — Peter Weir 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
The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because… — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
I never considered myself part of rock 'n' roll. My stuff was more adult. It was more difficult for teenagers to relate… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
• As society rapidly changes, individuals will have to be able to function comfortably in a world that is always in flux.… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my books my characters experience things as they are. My books allow youth an honest look at important issues affecting them.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in… — Kristin Luker Copy Share Image
Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I think people discredit teenagers and how wise they can be. Sometimes I meet teenagers who are much wiser than many adults… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
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