Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I grew up an only child, so I was so much more adult. My eldest daughter is 10, and I was so… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest. I mean, I like a good thrill. Thrillers are my… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
This is the great thing about writing for kids. Adults might not do anything if they recognized me. But if they do… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It's a lot easier to make friends when you're younger, because kids are a lot less judgmental than adults. They're more like,… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write,… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a… — Terri Irwin Copy Share Image
Getting hit if you throw it... Getting hit if you don't throw it... The problem is whether you're getting hit by a… — Seo Do-young Copy Share Image
It's always hard when you make a movie that's fundamentally about kids for adults. How do you make people aware of who… — Scott Rudin Copy Share Image
I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
I believe that this life is all we have. I don't believe in anything after this, so I think the choices we… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country ... not just because Barack has done well,… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
I have studied the effects of our new lots of polio vaccine in 100 adult volunteers and during the next few days… — Albert Sabin Copy Share Image
Well, the fact is, we can never know what people do in the privacy of their own rooms. The door is closed.… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I… — Brooke Burns Copy Share Image
I have inquired for most of my adult life about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent. And… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
While the Internet generally tends to have a stress-relieving function for adults - as long as they aren't inclined toward sex addiction… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about YA books - I don't know about Percy Jackson, but I do know about 'Twilight' and… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The Five A’s (attention, appreciation, acceptance, affection, allowing) are simultaneously the fulfillment of our earliest needs, the requirements of adult intimacy and… — David Richo Copy Share Image
The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
To go against gangs or drugs is meaningless unless this is mostly done by filling in the empties, the vacuums, and stop… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
One of the things I really love about 3D is that because as we grow older on eye weakens more than the… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto,… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
Something very unique about Germany is that once you are suspected or accused of having worked for the Stassi, it doesn't matter… — Christian Schwochow Copy Share Image
There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Right from the start my parents had left me to fend for myself. Apparently unaware that I was a kid, they invariably… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
