The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while… — Seth Roberts Copy Share Image
When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need… — Vestal McIntyre Copy Share Image
Stealing money from your parents - I feel like I did that a lot and I now know as an adult that… — Cameron Esposito Copy Share Image
Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables. — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over. — Morgan Brittany Copy Share Image
“Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Right from the start my parents had left me to fend for myself. Apparently unaware that I was a kid, they invariably… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
As an adult, I think I wanna be living in New York City and help a lot of homeless people and try… — Rachel Trachtenburg Copy Share Image
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in… — Kristin Luker Copy Share Image
Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a… — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
There are certain functions that the family performs. In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction,… — Adrian Wilson Copy Share Image
A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Children already ignore others and take time on their own, and I think that is something adults should refer back to as… — Farrah Abraham Copy Share Image
I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
“They where like so many of the adults around us, content to pretend that all was well…but we knew better” — Melba Pattillo Beals Copy Share Image
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I never thought when I was a kid that I would become an adult. I never thought of myself as having any… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult? — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I'd like to see people worry less about their inner child and more about their outer adult. — Ron Bennington Copy Share Image
Defendants have not explained how allowing same-sex marriage between two consenting adults will at all prevent heterosexual spouses from caring for their… — Kristine G. Baker Copy Share Image
We're all family at the end of the day - connected to other members of our family as adults or children. — Jo Frost Copy Share Image
I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you… — Victoria Pratt Copy Share Image
The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It was like adults had their own little world that we weren't allowed to be a part of, and it didn't make… — Susan Pogorzelski Copy Share Image
The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment. — Allen Klein Copy Share Image
Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact). — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
