When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it,… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“Courage was no that hard to come by for children. No matter the hardships they faced, given a little love and encouragement,… — Sophie Littlefield Copy Share Image
The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables. — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
So when it came to making the movie I guess I had a really good sense innately of what it was that… — Michael Dougherty Copy Share Image
The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly. — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
In today's world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither timenor place… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that… — Raymond Arroyo 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
If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
“It was them and not them, maybe the ones they’d never been. I could almost see those others standing in the garden… — Lydia Millet 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
I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
No matter how children came to be living with just one parent, they need to be told, again and again, that your… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The fact that I am so young So Immature Seems unforgivable to The decrepit Perfect and faultless adults — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
A child is not an adult, a child didn't ask to be here. Any man that doesn't take care of his responsibilities… — Stephen A. Smith Copy Share Image
By the age of 18, the average child has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence, including 18,000 simulated murders, on television. It is… — Jean Illsley Clarke Copy Share Image
I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and… — Roy Barnes Copy Share Image
human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Some people discard their childhood like an old hat. They forget about it like a phone number that's no longer valid. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
