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In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.
My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life.
Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word.
If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.
There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.
I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal.
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.
In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.
Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.
I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.
For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.
In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.
You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...
I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.
There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.
Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults?
Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.
It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position.
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.
The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.
All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.
The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.
I was convinced that adults would realize more what they are capable of doing if it's shown through children's eyes.
All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.
To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.
As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.
I often meet adults in their 30s, 40s, or 50s who, as soon as they recognize me, suddenly become six years old again.
I think Anderson Cooper is an opinionated, hypocritical idiot who should be an adult and keep his opinion to himself.
Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You gotta do something. Show us what you have.
Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.
It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?
Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.
Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.'
We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.
I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.
For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.