It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with… — Wendy Lustbader Copy Share Image
There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult… — William Damon Copy Share Image
I'd say that kids working on sets, even if it's Bambi, need to be allowed to be kids, even if they're working,… — Julia Ormond Copy Share Image
Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people,… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
Parents wrongly assume that their daughters live in a world similar to the one they experienced as adolescents. They are dead wrong.… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
So we went off and made this movie ["Jim Younger"], and I've gotta tell ya, it's as much fun as I've ever… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
My show is an adult comedy show, but it isn't offensive. Your kids could listen to it, even though I hope they… — Henry Cho Copy Share Image
“Most adults consciously choose to remain ignorant simply because the state of prevents others from holding them accountable for the foolish acts… — Wsbj Copy Share Image
Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
My first reaction was that the adult world was fake and liars and basically worked for money and power. I didn't want… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Historians of the future will find it incredible that we mutilated babies by cutting off the end of their penises in the… — Dean Edell Copy Share Image
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
There isn't any problem with little girls. And there isn't any problem with young women or adult women. I mean, they are… — Rush Limbaugh 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
The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20,… — Stephen Dorff Copy Share Image
Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn… — Anthony Kennedy 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
Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
I had a very specific goal and I think kids, more than adults, don't understand obstacles and competition. I wanted to be… — Bob Bergen Copy Share Image
Learning is most often considered. a process of getting rather than giving. This is most evident in conceptions of student/teacher roles: Teachers… — David A. Kolb Copy Share Image
A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
Making prostitution legalized gives our society a message that sex is not sacred/private between two adults - that sex can be bought… — Annie Lobert Copy Share Image
Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My head grew muddled with it all; the silly ways adults acted with one another, never saying what they meant, trusting in… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what… — David Simon Copy Share Image
I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image