The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it. — Frank Warren Copy Share Image
The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility. — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Some adults would rather pretend that bad things don't exist than to talk about them. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults. — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they… — John Green Copy Share Image
You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie. — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career. — E-40 Copy Share Image
We only get 60 years, if we're really lucky, as adults on earth, and why not try to wake up every day… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it. — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity,… — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Adults who were hurt as children inevitably exhibit a peculiar strength, a profound inner wisdom, and a remarkable creativity and insight. Deep… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I… — Gary Haugen Copy Share Image
Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards. — Frank Abagnale Copy Share Image
I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old. — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The difference between a child's toy and an adult toy is: location, location, location. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
