Although adults have a role to play in teaching social skills to children, it is often best that they play it unobtrusively.… — Zick Rubin Copy Share Image
Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
Meditators are shown to have thickening in parts of the brain structure that deal with attention, memory and sensory functions. This was… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Our panaceas cure but few ails, our general hospitals are private and exclusive. We must set up another Hygeia than is now… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Some people discard their childhood like an old hat. They forget about it like a phone number that's no longer valid. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If we use child in a good sense (it has also legitimately a bad one) we must not allow that to push… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
No. I think they're the idiot people and I'm the normal person. But I don't really go to parties where...I don't really… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
People who keep a large snake in their apartment building, which happens quite a bit, all of a sudden, within two summers,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult,… — Tyler Blackburn Copy Share Image
Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“According to management professors Daniel Levin, Jorge Walter, and Keith Murnighan, “adults accumulate thousands of relationships over their lifetimes, but, prior to… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
My father was from a secular Jewish family and my mother from a nominally Christian (Episcopalian) one. They were not religious as… — Mike Berenstain Copy Share Image
In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am for decriminalization. The significant aspect of that is that we don't force prostitutes to have to get a license to… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Once I sold my shares and figured I wanted to get out of the magazine business it was like, "Now I can… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
I believe in national service, I believe that every young adult citizen should do two years of national service. Not necessarily to… — Robert Irvine Copy Share Image
“Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them,… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
I try to take a snapshot of who I am now, who I am becoming, as opposed to who I was when… — El-P Copy Share Image
“We wouldn’t even have wars if adults followed the rules they learned as children. A four-year-old would be able to see how… — Cat Winters Copy Share Image
What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“Adults have the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct. When we “grow… — Alberto Alvaro Ríos Copy Share Image
Italy is hard to beat. It's a family-friendly experience, they like to see kids in restaurants, and at dinner you see all… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Each time I wander into blogdom, I'm reminded of the savage children stranded on an island in William Golding's "Lord of the… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
