“We don’t become adults when we start making love, we become adults when we stop playing” — Ela Crain Copy Share Image
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad.” — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“Adults don’t have the same growth momentum that children do to help enable and amplify progress. In adults, change comes from hard… — Melissa Orlov Copy Share Image
An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I… — Elinor Lipman Copy Share Image
Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
People are stereotypes, they are caricaturized. It comes from both sides of the political aisle, it comes from the press. It's all… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes.… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Without my women friends, I wouldn't know anything. They've been my teachers and my mothers. My mother was a wonderful person, but… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups,… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices,… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have. — Jim McKay Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals. — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
It's easier to see children as mini adults than it is to imagine or to remember what it is to be a… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
One of the most important things we adults can do for young children is to model the kind of person we would… — Carol B Hillman Copy Share Image
Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well. — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually… — R. J. Reynolds Copy Share Image
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