Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems. — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
Sex is the most important sort of adult play. If you can't relax here you never will — Alex Comfort Copy Share Image
In adults, dependability is the fruit of maturity; in a child, it is the seed. — Richard M. Eyre Copy Share Image
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children. — Alexander Chase Copy Share Image
“Adults are prone to many unhappy differences of opinion.” — Brilliant Dynamites Neon Copy Share Image
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now. — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
At sixteen I was like: "I need to get an album out now!" - even though I was only sixteen. I was… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
When I was a child at sixteen, I was just a child. All sixteen year-olds are just children. As much as we… — Frank Abagnale Copy Share Image
Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
I feel that in all kids that I've came across, that at the age of 12-13 is a big transition . They… — Richard Cabral Copy Share Image
What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
She did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we… — John Green Copy Share Image
[The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
You know, how am I leading my own life? What am I denying? Since I brought such great powers of denial into… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have. — Victor Frederick Weisskopf Copy Share Image
Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man! — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her. — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
![“[The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for waggling a bit if it thinks it's about to trip over something — but flying is out of the question. Sadly, however, it seems that not only has the kakapo forgotten…” quote by Douglas Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa4/douglas-adams-122_adults_the-kakapo-is-an-extremely-fat-bird-a-go_2909273.jpg)
