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As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.

To be adult in relationship is not to be conflict-free, it's to resolve conflicts mindfully.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money.

The best thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent.

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

A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.

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

I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid.

We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.

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

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.

Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.

A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult.

I want to be the kind of adult that keeps learning. I want to always be open to new experiences.

The PS3 will instill discipline in our children and adults alike. Everyone will know discipline.

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

I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.

This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

Thank you 'adults who wear back packs' for letting me know that I don't have to take you seriously

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

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults.

It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal.

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

The first thing to understand about working with children's dreams is that adults need to listen up.

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

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

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

I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.

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

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

Part of your process of becoming an adult is admitting to yourself that The Doors were a shitty band.

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

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

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