I love letters from little kids. Adults never proclaim themselves 'your #1 fan! Votes: 3
Lauren Baratz-LogstedAn Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. Votes: 3
Pope Benedict XVIIs adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults? Votes: 3
Marilyn MansonAdults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them. Votes: 3
Neil GaimanAdults always acted like they could fix everything. But they can't. And they know it. Votes: 3
Jana OliverAdults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses. Votes: 3
Michael ScottA fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. Votes: 3
John B. S. HaldaneChildren use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children. Votes: 3
Mason CooleyAdults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh. Votes: 3
Gary PaulsenAnother belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. Votes: 3
Margaret AtwoodWe're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children. Votes: 0
Brené BrownYoung people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones. Votes: 0
Adam FletcherLet's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems. Votes: 0
Adora SvitakThe socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults. Votes: 0
Robert NozickIn 2003 Scotland had 36 new business registrations per 10,000 adults. It's still the same. Votes: 0
Tom HunterTeenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults. Votes: 0
Harvey KurtzmanChildren are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed. Votes: 0
Philip PullmanThe most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously. Votes: 0
Georges PompidouThe difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber. Votes: 0
Mo WillemsIs adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults? Votes: 0
Marilyn MansonThe welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults Votes: 0
Dennis PragerForgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive. Votes: 0
Tim RelfChildren don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them. Votes: 0
Marian Wright EdelmanIt is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility. Votes: 0
Jules FeifferKids love watching adults act like children. It's that spirit they can relate to. Votes: 0
James RodayI picture Generation X as young adults living in a state of perpetual adolescence. Votes: 0
Chris EigemanNobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it. Votes: 0
Ogden NashOnly three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them. Votes: 0
Brian TracyYou know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. Votes: 0
Nassim Nicholas TalebI have a natural affinity with children and adults who cant accept adult responsibility. Votes: 0
Dexter FletcherI have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility. Votes: 0
Dexter FletcherI think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. Votes: 0
Donna TarttWe have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee"but there are no instant adults. Votes: 0
Jim TreleaseToday's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history. Votes: 0
Ruben HinojosaIn adults, dependability is the fruit of maturity; in a child, it is the seed. Votes: 0
Richard M. EyreWhen you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you. Votes: 0
Rachel BloomWalt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults. Votes: 0
Dick Van DykeSurely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy. Votes: 0
Isaac AsimovThe children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it. Votes: 0
Frank WarrenSome adults would rather pretend that bad things dont exist than to talk about them. Votes: 0
Laurie Halse AndersonChildren have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives. Votes: 0
Dan SavageDinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time. Votes: 0
Robert T. BakkerSex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults. Votes: 0
Alan WattsAs adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents. Votes: 0
Alain de Bottona good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children. Votes: 0
Philippa PearceI think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults. Votes: 0
Rocco ButtiglioneThe value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Votes: 0
Peter De VriesAdult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. Votes: 0
Neil GaimanAmong adults " and among orphans " Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare. Votes: 0
John IrvingThe value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. Votes: 0
Peter De VriesWar is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults. Votes: 0
Karl MarlantesI think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems. Votes: 0
Beverly ClearyWe must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive. Votes: 0
Gayle RubinWe adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children. Votes: 0
Kailash SatyarthiYoung adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettThe PS3 will instill discipline in our children and adults alike. Everyone will know discipline. Votes: 0
Ken KutaragiI've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults. Votes: 0
Brene BrownI've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults. Votes: 0
Brené BrownPlease tell me we don't grow up and turn into the adults that drive us crazy. Votes: 0
Karen Marie MoningMy dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids. Votes: 0
Jennie GarthI don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is. Votes: 0
Diablo CodyMy book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only. Votes: 0
Lev GrossmanWe're allowed as adults to create a life that we like. Kids don't have that freedom. Votes: 0
Rebecca SteadChildren will often write, 'We love your books because there are no adults in them.' Votes: 0
Jean Craighead GeorgeKids want nothing more than for all the important adults in their life to get along. Votes: 0
Harriet LernerA writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults. Votes: 0
Ursula K. Le GuinSeparation is where you see if it works better with the adults in two different homes. Votes: 0
Carolyn HaxNone of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh. Votes: 0
Maureen HowardI was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person. Votes: 0
Alice EnglertA lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself. Votes: 0
Laura SchlessingerYou seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset. Votes: 0
Robert CormierThey asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults. Votes: 0
Jay LondonIlliteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate. Votes: 0
Roseanne BarrTantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory. Votes: 0
Frederick LenzTantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellParenthood can be very rewarding, but let's face it, so are margaritas at the adults-only pool. Votes: 0
Jen KirkmanIn life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. Votes: 0
Elizabeth WurtzelAs adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves. Votes: 0
Norman MacleodThere's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure. Votes: 0
Mike PennerI'm often in the company of adults, so it's nice to meet girls my age or younger. Votes: 0
Malala YousafzaiI always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old. Votes: 0
Gillian JacobsWe must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust. Votes: 0
Margaret MeadAs far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children, or you read books for adults. Votes: 0
Richard K. MorganThere are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. Votes: 0
Andre BretonRemember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults. Votes: 0
Andy AndrewsThe lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment. Votes: 0
Allen KleinI believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value. Votes: 0
R. L. StineWhen children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money. Votes: 0
Phil CollinsAs adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous. Votes: 0
Dennis PotterRecently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults. Votes: 0
Christina RicciIn the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults. Votes: 0
Charles J. ShieldsPneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults. Votes: 0
Paul A. OffitI make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats. Votes: 0
Warren SpectorBeing able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love. Votes: 0
Drummond Money-CouttsFor me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain. Votes: 0
Sara ShepardI was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults. Votes: 0
Kate DiCamilloThe first thing to understand about working with children's dreams is that adults need to listen up. Votes: 0
Robert MossTime spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children. Votes: 0
Laura BushWhen we are young we believe to be adults; when we are adults we believe to be young. Votes: 0
Simone Bittencourt de OliveiraI know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny. Votes: 0
Tom BodettThere is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends. Votes: 0
Jamie Lee CurtisI don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either. Votes: 0
Kristen StewartTypical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates. Votes: 0
Eric IdleA lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time. Votes: 0
Khloe KardashianIf children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush. Votes: 0
Karl KrausTeens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds. Votes: 0
Kim HarrisonIt's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal. Votes: 0
Greg GiraldoYou have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults. Votes: 0
Franck RiberyOrdinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds. Votes: 0
Jasper FfordeI always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults. Votes: 0
John LasseterThe key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible. Votes: 0
Beverly ClearyThere is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults. Votes: 0
Philippe PetitI trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth. Votes: 0
Johnny DeppChildren have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way. Votes: 0
Julie TaymorThis is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children. Votes: 0
RumiThank you 'adults who wear back packs' for letting me know that I don't have to take you seriously Votes: 0
Jimmy FallonMy step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them. Votes: 0
Billy CorganWhen I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. Votes: 0
Alison BechdelThere are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children. Votes: 0
W. H. AudenThe goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been. Votes: 0
Adora SvitakLook, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country. Votes: 0
James WoodsChildren whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness. Votes: 2 David Blunkett
That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult - but I still grappled with being responsible to both of them. Votes: 1 Jayne Anne Phillips
My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult. Votes: 1 Maya Angelou
I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California. Votes: 1 Debi Mazar
Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen. Votes: 1 Dwight Henry
I'm spoiled. All of my adult jobs have left me with complete freedom to come up with what I wanted. Votes: 1 Eric Betzig