In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. For adults, we've got HIV and TB are still… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Over and over again women and men ... come to me saying, I don't know enough to write a book for adults,… — Mabel Robinson Copy Share Image
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The StarTalks - while kids can watch them, they're actually targeted at adults. Because adults outnumber kids five to one, and adults… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think that children that are acting are always pretty savvy anyway because you're conducting yourself around adults a lot of the… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say: OK, now I'm going to do this… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like,… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Once we make our relationship choices in an adult way, a prospective partner who is unavailable, nonreciprocal, or not open to processing… — David Richo Copy Share Image
Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with… — Luigi Ghirri Copy Share Image
Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake but you’re not supposed… — Michael Oher Copy Share Image
Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork: even when someone is not ill, when there has been no telegram, they run… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Creativity is one of the most important brain functions in developing youth. It is the ultimate road to invention. I believe it… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
As Carl Jung once said, 'When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.' When our boys become… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I would get adult acne when it was somebody really famous I had to interview, so sometimes I would have to look… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable,… — K. Anders Ericsson Copy Share Image
It's naive of adults to believe that young people aren't aware of what is going on in the world. The best thing… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia.… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
I think it is an intelligent story [The Intruders]. You've got adult characters who are in search of some things that are… — Glen Morgan Copy Share Image
No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ... - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The inevitability of abortion. But I refuse to accept the amoral consequences that are even far worse than that, which is harvesting… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
We're not trying to raise good kids. We're trying to raise kids who become great adults. That's a very different thing. We… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
People are like, "Why are you all dressed up? Did you dress up just for me?" I'm like "No, I dressed up… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image