“Kids are really good at ignoring the heavy-handed message and getting with the fun parts. It's good they are, because adults have… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this.… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between… — George Will Copy Share Image
In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I was 13 and a teenager, as well. When you're that age, you want to be an adult, in a way, but… — Elle Fanning Copy Share Image
The Song is a gritty, realistic, and powerful film. The acting and production quality are excellent, and the story is captivating. Although… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are.… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
[E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I completely reject the idea that working adults need to be treated like infants or worse and not told the realities, harsh… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and… — Haley Joel Osment Copy Share Image
I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live… — Lawrence M. Friedman Copy Share Image
I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Though the children did not know Levin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they did not feel… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the responsible use of marijuana by adults and it should be of no interest or concern… — Keith Stroup Copy Share Image
Now with digital, we have much better projection, and if the theaters are charging higher prices but providing refreshments and a clean,… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I guess just personally I've become a bolder person in my day-to-day. I think a lot of it came from moving to… — Fernando Torres Copy Share Image
Usually the people that peak in high school are tragic, tragic adults. Most of them end up working for the water department… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
What do warriors do? They are in competition with everyone else. They measure their success and their value on the basis of… — Wayne Dyer 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
“Adults who believe in the Little Adult Assumption are going to rely heavily on words and reasons in trying to change the… — Thomas W. Phelan Copy Share Image
Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes… — John Green Copy Share Image
I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails. Because it would necessarily affect the… — Stewart Dalzell Copy Share Image
I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I found a 1992 New York Times article:Bill Clinton playing golf at a club that he played at all of his adult… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date.… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an… — Roddy McDowall Copy Share Image
Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who… — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
...a college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those… — Leroy S Rouner Copy Share Image
In America, I get a lot of younger kids, but there's teens and adults too, ... In Europe, for some reason, I… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
![“[E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to…” quote by Emma Donoghue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e0/emma-donoghue-1499_adults_e-verywhere-i-m-looking-at-kids-adults-m_862524.jpg)
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