... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one… — Ellen Gustafson Copy Share Image
I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Literally, walking down that path. I was walking to work and I passed by A.C.T. (American Conservatory Theater) in San Francisco, and… — Tim Kang Copy Share Image
When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A real good artist is basically a grown-up kid, who never kills the kid. What we call being an adult is basically… — Quentin Dupieux Copy Share Image
You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Dance therapy provides an outlet for energy and a safe and playful environment in which many areas of conflict can be identified… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Adults never explained anything. They saw children as akin to small animals, creatures who had to be tugged and beaten into adulthood… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Stephen Ansolabehere cited a study from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study stating that one out of every 100 adults, or about six… — Marian Walsh Copy Share Image
I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was “Everything… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
They don't tend to feature the kind of vaginas I like in adult films. I tend to like a thick, heavy pussy… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
What we need now is the greatest generation of young adults in the history of the Church. We need your whole heart… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
The Daredevil comic book was the first comic book Marvel had ever put out that was an adult R-rated book, so I… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“That's what my dad is like-he really disappeared a long time ago, which is maybe why it didn't bother me much. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
Babies breathe a lot more rapidly than adults do, and what's more, they're also growing quickly and so they're absorbing lots more… — Francis Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult… — Jill Scott 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
As an adult, I think I wanna be living in New York City and help a lot of homeless people and try… — Rachel Trachtenburg Copy Share Image
It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
