I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child’s hands.… — Kenny Pieper Copy Share Image
When we’re young nothing offends us, except adults telling us what should. Then when we become adults, nothing offends us, except we… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.” — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
'Marnie' was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
Why am I attracted to all these lying quotes all of a sudden? Here’s another one. This one by Phillip Lopate: ‘(Children… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
But the pop-up suburb has an incomplete feel to it like something that just wasn't right, wasn't quite real, almost like a… — Anne Frasier Copy Share Image
Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
It is every parent's nightmare when a child is in trouble with the law. As a parent, you can do your best… — Jesse White Copy Share Image
Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid… — George Will Copy Share Image
I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
While the Western society gives total freedom to the individuals to do whatever "consenting adults" please, which admittedly is better than having… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Whenever I eat at a restaurant I never put the napkin in my lap. People say, 'Hannibal, why don't you put the… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
As a theatrical troupe, the Muppets haven't exactly been AWOL these past dozen years; the gang rocked YouTube in 2009 with their… — Lisa Schwarzbaum Copy Share Image
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of adults to give advice. It is the privilege of youth not to listen. Both avail themselves of… — Dominique Sutton Copy Share Image
The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
I am grateful to be able to participate in the adult citation program where I will complete community service. — Jameis Winston Copy Share Image
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really… — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say,… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time. — Khloe Kardashian Copy Share Image
“I was not a lovable child, and I’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult. — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier… — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
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