It’s amazing to me that and 17-year-olds are treated as adults no matter what. If we make a big enough presence and have enough people, maybe the General Assembly will listen.

Adults don’t take fairy tales seriously but just see them as reading for children. I have found fertile fields to explore in those stories.

…you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than...

One of the greatest tragedies of growing up is the discovery that your parents- and your teachers, and your sports heroes, and your favorite actors, singers, YouTube sensations- are fallible. Adults don’t know all, and...

We are not sure what we will become, only what we want to and don’t want to. We often become what we never thought we could, then we become fine with that.

The governor welcomes supporters from all backgrounds. This contribution was made by an adult and is perfectly legal.

Magda looks at me as if I’ve gone mad. Or I’ve grown up. It’s kind of the same thing.

I talk to children like adults and to adults like children.

Children are bad enough–children are rude, selfish, greedy, and unthinking individuals who are unable to distinguish between their own selfish wants and needs and the wants and needs of others. And adults are children with...

You two are children almost grown. Your hearts have not hardened to the realities of the world. Your dreams have not fallen through your fingers. You still know hope.

Courage was no that hard to come by for children. No matter the hardships they faced, given a little love and encouragement, their spirits rebounded and thrived. Adults were different. Their habits and experiences made...

And then I know I’m being a man, not just some kid who’s upset and wants it his way.

The court ruled that the law was content-based because it restricted only sexually explicit adult programming,

One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which...

Then turn your eyes back on me,and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.

There are no problems.Just strange situations we have to deal with, as adults we are.

What is good for an adult may not be good for a child. The agency is really looking into whether or not smoke alarms can be more effective for a broader percentage of the population.

Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities.

Four years after my father’s death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief...

We can’t do it on every missing adult. In this situation, we had an adult, albeit a mentally challenged individual, who, in the past, had been known to go elsewhere.

It’s only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

Grownups don’t pay it much attention because they can’t imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.

Moral obligations verses Legal obligations. Legally, you must abide by the laws of the land or face the consequences of being fined, imprisoned or both. Moral obligations tend to lean more towards a spiritual nature...

Even adults refer to prehistoric mammals as dinosaurs.

When the game agency estimates there are only 10 adult male lions in the entire Black Hills, a hunt that can kill more than 25 lions is a prescription for extinction.

It could be fear of men, lack of trust for adults or inability to enjoy normal sexual relationships.

Adults…struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire...

Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Give An African Child Or Adult A Enabled Environment And Proper Facilities Like In The West And See The Many Great Wonders That Would Be Manifested Through This Often Criticized Race. In My Own Case...

Ultimately, our goal is for children and adults to understand that all of us have something meaningful to contribute to American democracy. We’ve built the Freedom Museum to play a role in the lives of...

Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what...

As far as I can tell, it doesn’t make any difference to adults how clever children are. They always stick together. Unless you are sick or dying or mortally wounded, they will always side with...

Some people are crazy in love. They are so captivated to where they’ve lost themselves. Do not be lured in so deep that you lose the essence of who you truly are.

I don’t like being with grown-up people. I’ve known that a long time. I don’t like it because I don’t know how to get on with them.

When he started, Christopher was really like a kid. He’s had, over the years, more and more adult responsibilities and adult experiences. He’s kind of closed some of the generation gap with Tony. But to...

That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you...

I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of...

It’s an awesome moment, seeing all those faces light up. Even a lot of the adults are surprised.

Treasure the wisdom of old age.Learn from elder people and be wise.

The purpose of college, to put this all another way, is to turn adolescents into adults. You needn’t go to school for that, but if you’re going to be there anyway, then that’s the most...

That when you get an adult that comes into an activity like that and tries to exploit young people I think is a tragedy.

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

You and I both know that love is for children,” he said. ”We’re adults. Compatibility is for adults.””Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,” Teresa replied. ”Only they get along just fine, and my...

Many elderly people choose cohabitation to avoid opposition from their adult children. A remarriage between two old people causes many sensitive issues.

Anybody that doesn’t like this industry is a fool that’s not up to date on what teens and young adults are buying these days.

We see allergic tendencies much more common in children than adults, and nobody really knows exactly why that is. The reality is, we can’t quite understand the aging process of the immune system, but it...

But I think parents aren’t teachers anymore. Parents — or a whole lot of us, at least — lead by mouth instead of by example. It seems to me that if a child’s hero is...

Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming — their trust that they are safe simply because he’s with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable...

It’s not so much that there is an increase, but that more of its users are becoming adults rather than going off at about 18 or 19.