This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision. — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes.” — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I feel like, as an adult, a lot of how you feel about yourself and what your inner workings are can be… — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I'm not usually an eavesdropper,but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children. — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Every day of my adult life, I have worn at least one piece of jewelry from my maternal grandmother's collection, all of… — Sloane Crosley 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
Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Look, there’s no such thing as the master division to me. I’m going to compete as an adult until I realize I… — Roger Gracie Copy Share Image
Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't… — David Alan Harvey Copy Share Image
I think people discredit teenagers and how wise they can be. Sometimes I meet teenagers who are much wiser than many adults… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The French believe that kids feel confident when they're able to do things for themselves, and do those things well. After children… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
“Grow up with me,Let’s run in fields and through the dark together,Fall off swings and burn special things,And both play outside in… — Keaton Henson Copy Share Image
I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid… — George Will Copy Share Image
I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to… — Muriel Beadle Copy Share Image
So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this? — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance. — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
“Adults are good at pretending to have things figured out, but we rarely do.” — Toby Neighbors Copy Share Image
Folk tales, which are usually written for children, become a bigger lesson for adults. — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image