We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain. — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking… — Susan Olsen Copy Share Image
Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults. — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life -… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
New York, it was an adult portion. It was an adult dose. So it took a couple of trips to get into… — Levon Helm Copy Share Image
But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
International adoption does not begin to solve the problems of the world's orphaned children. It's truly not the answer. At the same… — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That’s the sound of being… — Brom Copy Share Image
We are afraid that our adult sexuality will somehow damage our kids, that it’s inappropriate or dangerous. But whom are we protecting?… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“Really there are very few adults these days who possess the mental and emotional self-sufficiency necessary for leading satisfactory existence in these… — Rowena Farre Copy Share Image
For a ridiculous analogy, let's take Purple Rain. If you were to put Purple Rain and The Sound of Music on the… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
I'm a grinder…I've never taken more than a week off in my adult life. I truly believe work is a virtue, it… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that.… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth. — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it? — David Remnick Copy Share Image
You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an… — Indiana Evans Copy Share Image
I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter. — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Many people's unhappiness is rooted in the habitual role they play. While our family role may have made sense growing up, it… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
“As a very young person, I was ready and willing to explore and try new things, unhampered by the daily routines that… — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The secret to adulthood is that 99% of the time, you actually know the right thing to do. Adults make it hard… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
