Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
People who concern themselves with the rights of other adults who engage in consensual acts involving sex, love, and/or eating croissants together… — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a… — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well. — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
“Adults like to say that childhood passes quickly, that it's over in the blink of an eye. I can't agree. When you… — Sergey Grechishkin Copy Share Image
The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids. — David Rolf Copy Share Image
Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty… — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I… — Julius Erving Copy Share Image
No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like 'Saturday Night Live' forces you to realize that no… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Though the children did not know Levin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they did not feel… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I feel that in all kids that I've came across, that at the age of 12-13 is a big transition . They… — Richard Cabral Copy Share Image
What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California. — Pete McCloskey Copy Share Image
If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults. — Chris Hemsworth Copy Share Image
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
You can't raise a happy, more resilient kid if you're not a happy, more resilient adult. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Part of your process of becoming an adult is admitting to yourself that The Doors were a shitty band. — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
Coloring is very relaxing for one thing. And I think adults like to unplug from technology for awhile and do something tangible… — Alan Robert Copy Share Image
In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
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