...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is… — Robert Smith 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
I signed my deal when I was 11, and the success I had, no one could explain that to an adult, what's… — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
Youth Ministry, as traditionally organized, has also suffered the impact of social changes. Young people often fail to find responses to their… — Pope Francis 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
It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility. — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I touch on sex in my stand-up and it's funny, because when I talk about sex from an adult point of view,… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
If you treat people like adults they will act like adults, but if you treat them like children they will act like… — Dennis Bakke Copy Share Image
Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I would start by writing to an adult, maybe a high school teacher, or maybe an aunt or uncle, and writing and… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Vegas is great, isn't it, man? This is the greatest place on Earth. Lookit; you have everything you could want; adult movies...this… — Triple H Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas. — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
I'm 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults. — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same… — Duff Goldman Copy Share Image
It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'...You can't… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them,… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles… — Bobby Vinton Copy Share Image
Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural… — William James Copy Share Image
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life. — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
Everyone has to learn to work with people - it's part of being an adult, too. — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
I think you couldn't do this role or you couldn't be Frankie Valli himself unless you had a natural falsetto. And I… — John Lloyd Young Copy Share Image
Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you. — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
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