Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldnt do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that,… — Olesya Rulin Copy Share Image
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history. — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves. — Norman Macleod Copy Share Image
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.' — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Babies breathe a lot more rapidly than adults do, and what's more, they're also growing quickly and so they're absorbing lots more… — Francis Thompson Copy Share Image
Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Let's admit the real reason that we ban cell phones is that, given the opportunity to use them, students would vote with… — Marc Prensky Copy Share Image
Look at the growing number of people that want to ban football. Or ban anything that might hurt somebody. Too violent or… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Mistaken regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human life tend to… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
As a mother, anything to do with my children, whether it's supporting their school or programs that support their education and enrichment.… — Trista Sutter Copy Share Image
These days, the selfie and its main outlet, Instagram, generally come in for much adult loathing. But consider this: The selfie is… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I was wearing my best Gap turtleneck and my dates were two adult lesbians, so yea, I was pretty cool. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Sophie is asking mum ‘Why am I NOT a doll NOT an adult NOT a boy NOT a giraffe?’ It’s so easy… — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
Young citizens on the verge of becoming adults deserve a real say in the world they will inherit. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500. — Brad Delson Copy Share Image
Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
![“These days, the selfie and its main outlet, Instagram, generally come in for much adult loathing. But consider this: The selfie is a tiny pulse of girl pride—a shout-out to the self. … The selfie suggests something in picture form—I think I look [beautiful] [happy] [funny] [sexy]. Do you?—that a…” quote by Rachel Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/544/rachel-simmons-4183_adults_these-days-the-selfie-and-its-main-outle_1407021.jpg)
