People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace? — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller -… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
When we want to infuse new ideas, to modify or better the habits and customs of a people, to breathe new vigor… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A lot of times you'll do a movie, and you'll be working with adults with families and kids and stuff. There's a… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand Copy Share Image
I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Many more children observe attitudes, values and ways different from or in conflict with those of their families, social networks,and institutions. Yet… — James P. Comer Copy Share Image
You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Really there are very few adults these days who possess the mental and emotional self-sufficiency necessary for leading satisfactory existence in these… — Rowena Farre Copy Share Image
For a ridiculous analogy, let's take Purple Rain. If you were to put Purple Rain and The Sound of Music on the… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That’s the sound of being… — Brom Copy Share Image
We are afraid that our adult sexuality will somehow damage our kids, that it’s inappropriate or dangerous. But whom are we protecting?… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults. — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
“Children are genius in the matters of making life fun and in the matters of making life unbearable, the adults are genius!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Directing adults is not the same kind of collaboration as you have with a teenager or kid. — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today. — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
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