The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
People forget what a big issue toilet training is for adults and kids, and it is not fun, especially when you're in… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season',… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children, or you read books for adults. — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
Maybe God's goal wasn't for me to raise a good rule-following child. Instead, His goal was for me to raise a God-following… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology. — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
Literally, walking down that path. I was walking to work and I passed by A.C.T. (American Conservatory Theater) in San Francisco, and… — Tim Kang Copy Share Image
I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one… — Ellen Gustafson Copy Share Image
When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that… — Avi Copy Share Image
It's true. somewhere inside us we are all the ages we have ever been. We're the 3 year old who got bit… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
I want to keep working. I want to step away from young adult fiction. I want to do theater periodically - Farragut… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
Parents are led to believe that they must be consistent, that is, always respond to the same issue the same way. Consistency… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
Social solidarity must rest (instead) on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility… — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
Nobody could be a professional cartoonist, because you have to do something you don't like to do in order to be a… — David Rees Copy Share Image
the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult,… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
The sum and substance of education is the right training that effectually leads the soul of the child at play on to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“I will thank you not to be impertinent," said Aunt Josephine, using a word which here means "pointing out that I'm wrong,… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Adults are just making things up as they go along. And when they’re scared, adults have no more answers than us kids” — Mike A. Lancaster Copy Share Image
Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults. — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
“You see, the thing with adults is that respect is just a word they use to guilt us nonadults into doing what… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
Until you can intelligently articulate the other side's position, you are not an adult. You are a liberal. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important. — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch. — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make… — Anna Chlumsky Copy Share Image
At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead. — William Landay Copy Share Image
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