It's all about baby steps and trying to figure out how to slowly, elegantly become an adult.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

I started when I was five, and grew up playing against adults and against men most of the time.

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

If you're an adult who takes 'Made in Chelsea' seriously, I suggest you take a look at yourself.

I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love.

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have.

What's great about games in particular is that it's a socially acceptable way for adults to imagine.

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.

Time goes by so slowly when you're a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation.

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong.

I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know.

I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'

My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old music.

I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

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