Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Deep inside, we’re all just playing at being adults. Because we’ll never be better than the people we were at six, or… — Emily Hemmer Copy Share Image
Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like… — Todd Burpo Copy Share Image
Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents'… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's… — Jacob Hashimoto Copy Share Image
I don't sense that people are loving the adults the way they have learned to love kids, because the truth is, they're… — John Donvan Copy Share Image
My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
Work is what structures adults' lives: it gives us purpose, focus, a set of responsibilities, and an identity. So when people are… — David Autor Copy Share Image
I'm not a scientist, I was not a good science student, I felt effectively alienated from science throughout my young life, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“There were things that adults needed to know (that they might pick up in a classroom): how to take notes, how to… — Alicia Kazsuk Copy Share Image
She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults. — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually… — R. J. Reynolds Copy Share Image
I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults. — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like… — Brandon Simpson Copy Share Image
The 'militia' was the entire adult male citizenry, who were not simply allowed to keep their own arms, but affirmatively required to… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
Not only Southern children - but adults as well - use the preface ma'am or sir when speaking to someone older or… — Tinsley Mortimer Copy Share Image
I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and… — Cheryl Hines Copy Share Image
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may… — Joe Manchin Copy Share Image
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
“I had so much respect for the fact that Father Andrew saw his own sins in my actions. I wished all adults… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
I wasn't a pain in the ass when I was a kid. So I think being a screw-up as an adult is… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
