No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I prefer children because they are honest. They don't want anything from you other than to have fun. Adults have let me… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“You should just sit them down and make them tell you. Make them be adults." "You can't make anyone be an adult.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
Libertarians believe consenting adults have the right to do whatever they choose, except band together. — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children. — Philippa Pearce Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
A real good artist is basically a grown-up kid, who never kills the kid. What we call being an adult is basically… — Quentin Dupieux Copy Share Image
You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Dance therapy provides an outlet for energy and a safe and playful environment in which many areas of conflict can be identified… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
In personal conversations between director and actor, the male directors that I've worked with are just as emotional. Maybe it's because I… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
You know, this is why I just don't answer the door (unless I know who's arriving). I don't want to fend off… — Ann Althouse Copy Share Image
Even if there was such a thing as a half-price sale at the local Ming outlet shop, she would have to work… — Alexandra Ivy Copy Share Image
So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Individuality is vitally important. When people start to lose their individuality is when I believe they start to lose themselves. I think… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate. — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
... the growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on… — Julia Lathrop Copy Share Image
This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and… — Nicole Richie Copy Share Image
You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults. — Franck Ribery Copy Share Image
A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16. — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and… — Jeff Myers Copy Share Image
It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds… — Olara Otunnu Copy Share Image
The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents. — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
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