Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior. — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business." — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail. — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Hollywood has glorified adult premarital sex, and that is unhelpful if your goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births. — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike. — Willard Libby Copy Share Image
There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Physical fitness is vital for the optimal function of the brain, for retardation of the onset of serious arteriosclerosis which is beginning… — Paul Dudley White Copy Share Image
No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin -… — John Irving Copy Share Image
People underestimate the power of the Internet. For some consumers, it is the source of all information. Younger adults are on their… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
Christian music was music that I grew up listening to that I can't say has had much of an impact on anything… — J Tillman Copy Share Image
What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Once I became an adult and started to pursue writing as a professional career, I realized my main characters were always young… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
In my books my characters experience things as they are. My books allow youth an honest look at important issues affecting them.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness… — Jean Maalouf Copy Share Image
Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes,… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
“The trouble with adults is that they never believe kids can do something even when they have good ideas.” — Jean Merrill Copy Share Image
Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that… — Jennifer Dunn Copy Share Image
What do you eat?" "Baby bunnies." She narrowed her eyes, so I grinned and said, "Adult bunnies, too. I'm an equal-opportunity bunny-eater. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
My mom would have killed me before, but I'm an adult woman now, and I'm ready to show the world that you… — Cindy Margolis Copy Share Image
Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
I do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because… — Mischa Barton Copy Share Image
Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really… — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say,… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
