I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has… — Cheryl Richardson Copy Share Image
Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
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I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
We're not really sure why it [broken circadian rhythm] continues, but when they become adults, we usually have to treat it because… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
There’s no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It’s not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
I always loved the work. As soon as I finished a movie, the most exciting thing to do was to try to… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Adults tend to be more understanding and accepting of differences than teenagers. The important thing is to find a group that your… — Chantal Sicile-Kira Copy Share Image
Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Already published reports, as well as our own observations indicate that smallpox vaccination sometimes produces manifestations of leukemia. In children and adults… — Julian Aleksandrowicz Copy Share Image
You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the… — Roger Wicker Copy Share Image
I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood… — Dan Byrd Copy Share Image
Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic —… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since I was 10. And then at a certain point I began to… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same… — Duff Goldman Copy Share Image
The roughest thing was learning the realities of the world at such a young age. I was 10 or 11, going to… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
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