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Turning 16 is kind of scary because when you're 16, you go from being a kid and then you can drive and are more of a young adult in a way.
There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary work of children.
If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.
I read 'Pushing the Limit' and 'Dare You To' by Katie McGarry. Fantastic stuff. I had never read young adult before, but now I'm a believer.
Whenever excessive regulation is on the horizon, you can guarantee our kids will be wheeled out as a battering ram against adult opposition.
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding.
Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.
I myself identify as British-Nigerian, and I'm also gay, and I'm also a young adult in London making music. All of things can co-exist as one.
Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.
If we behave like the kitchen is for adults, they become more wary of it and reluctant to go in it because it feels like it's a grown-up space.
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.
The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.
It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.
As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.
Divorce is hard enough when you're an adult - never mind when you're a child. That was probably when my shyness started, when I was at my shyest.
When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
The message bombarding young adults from the leftist cultural elite is clear; you should think for yourself... by adopting my beliefs as your own.
I think I'm constantly surprised that adults can't deal with illogical things or thing that are weird or psychedelic. I've never really lost that.
Someone who will take responsibility for the real welfare of the American people, to be honest with them. I'd like to have that adult in the room.
I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'
In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.
The moment you're not worried about adult problems and you get to just make music, then I've made it to some extent.
Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
I know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny.
Being a fat kid - FFK, former fat kid - helped round me out, no pun intended. I'm a better adult because I wasn't treated well as a child.
Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.
I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.
I was raised in a household where kids' opinions were just as valued as adults and I think that was important for me.
When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.
Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have.
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.
I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids' creativity.
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.