“The trouble with adults is that they never believe kids can do something even when they have good ideas.” — Jean Merrill Copy Share Image
Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that… — Jennifer Dunn Copy Share Image
What do you eat?" "Baby bunnies." She narrowed her eyes, so I grinned and said, "Adult bunnies, too. I'm an equal-opportunity bunny-eater. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
I think a lot of adults are kind of set in their ways. My mom is always changing. She's excited to learn. — Jessica Parker Kennedy Copy Share Image
Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults? — Lori Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Every child I know who overcame long odds and grew into a responsible adult can point to an adult who stepped into… — S. Truett Cathy Copy Share Image
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about… — Sophie Marceau Copy Share Image
If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school.… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
Albert [Brooks] was rare in that he could make adults laugh. He was a prodigy. At age 15 and 16, he could… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe.… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Next to fat babies, midgets are my favorite things to hold. I love them so much, and I want to help them… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior. — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business." — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail. — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Adults don't get nearly the attention and support the kids do, maybe because they're not as cute or because people forget that… — John Donvan Copy Share Image
Children ask questions much more than adults do, and you have to wonder if this is something we have that we lose. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions. — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey. — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
A new survey says one in three adults will be dressing up for Halloween. As for me, I'm not going to do… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
A child's death is really of less value than an adult's. I mean, what could you really accomplish in a year? Not… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of… — David Elkind Copy Share Image