In adults, dependability is the fruit of maturity; in a child, it is the seed.

At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

I'm sad for adults who want to be children. And children who want to be adults.

When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.

Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults.

Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.

The difference between children and adults is that they're shorter - not dumber.

I had a boyfriend for a long time and I've never really been single as an adult.

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

Kids love watching adults act like children. It's that spirit they can relate to.

Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.

Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.

The human child – so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.

Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.

Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things dont exist than to talk about them.

I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life.

Kids want nothing more than for all the important adults in their life to get along.

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.

We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.

I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema!

Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time.

Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

Adults always acted like they could fix everything. But they can't. And they know it.

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.

Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

When we are young we believe to be adults; when we are adults we believe to be young.

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.

Separation is where you see if it works better with the adults in two different homes.

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