“Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences… — Albert Shanker Copy Share Image
We live in a reward-centered society. When I was a child, my father used to say, "It's not whether you win or… — Renee Lawless Copy Share Image
The reason they came up with the ratings board is that there are a lot of movies out there, and parents need… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult belonging has… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to… — George Michael 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
O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drift near each other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“According to one study, almost half of the adults in the United States have little enthusiasm for life and are not actively… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
One of the best things about reading comic books, when you're a kid or an adult, is watching the characters cross-over. What… — Andrew Kreisberg Copy Share Image
My mom sent me to regular high school because she wanted me to have that experience and not say that I missed… — Alexa Vega Copy Share Image
I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Al Gore announced Tuesday that he plans to launch a 24-hour cable news network for young adults. Gore claims he's been wanting… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I feel like most horror films are made for teenagers about teenagers. I've done a couple of those horror films. There's nothing… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Not everybody loves their children. If that was a fact, all the children would be happy and they would make happy adults.… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's given to fistfights, gunplay,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Most adults are just hollowed out. You watch them try to fill themselves up with booze or money or God or fame… — John Green Copy Share Image
In America, as was the topic earlier about polygamy, consenting adults are supposed to do - be able to do whatever they… — Max Kellerman Copy Share Image
We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now, I meant to talk about something else earlier on, and I've forgotten what it was. I've remembered what it is again,… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
We need to actually teach kids that books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat every bit on your plate. It's… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation… — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys--and plenty of leisure and scope… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
![“I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I know that when you're 15, you love a band like you will kill people. But I don't quite realize that that's true about people - adults - who read The Hunger Games.” quote by Joel Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ffd/joel-stein-12345_adults_i-have-some-idea-that-if-i-pick-on-boy-b_316616.jpg)
![“He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be art, the object of children's books is to whip the little rascals into shape.” quote by Katherine Paterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2cf/katherine-paterson-2365_adults_he-an-earnest-young-reporter-seemed-to-s_6101.jpg)
