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.

Adults discourage children from asking philosophical questions, first by being patronizing to them and then by directing their inquiring minds towards more “useful” questions. Most adults aren’t themselves interested in philosophical questions. They may be...

Children are being killed, because some “adults” think life is a game.Something is amiss.When children shoot up other children in school, it’s a national tragedy, and a week of mourning.When grown men are killing unarmed...

Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they’ve already decided they want to become.

The problem with parents is that they’re adults.

I have 14-year-olds that are stronger than some adults.

One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector’s Dream.

An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread.But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food.You want something a little more colourful,...

Because they breathe more times per minute than adults, they are more susceptible to biological or chemical agents, … Because their skin is thinner than that of adults, they are more susceptible to toxic agents...

[E]verywhere I’m looking at kids, adults mostly don’t seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again...

The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.

These types of things are especially popular with children, because they get to see things in a different way… perhaps then more adults should allow themselves the same experience.

PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called “trousers” by the...

I catch sight of Janice. Her eyes are so full of excitement that I half expect her to jump up and down. This is something she’ll never forget, I tell myself. As an old lady...

Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.

In an adult and in a child, you want them to begin rehabilitation as soon as possible.

As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.

About 17 percent of children are overweight and about a third of adults are obese.

I’d have to be out of the state or not in Eugene to not get to my adult league game. And I’m not a red-hot player. I have to wear glasses and whatnot.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child

I want to make it clear the kid did everything he was supposed to do. It was an adult error.

Some people discard their childhood like an old hat. They forget about it like a phone number that’s no longer valid. They used to be kids, then they became adults – but what are they...

I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form – in this medium – and learn to give it your support because...

He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

We are there to serve their needs, they are not there to serve ours. That’s lost on a lot of adults.

A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.

Adults are just making things up as they go along. And when they’re scared, adults have no more answers than us kids

It’s becoming harder and harder to argue that embryonic cells have uses that adult cells do not.

In reality, Little Ones, there are two winters. One made for kids; the other for adults. The one made for adults is always too cold and always too long. The one made for kids is...

The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their own youthful detriment!

Clearly an adult must be responsible enough to come in and ensure that doesn’t happen.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes.

I had so much respect for the fact that Father Andrew saw his own sins in my actions. I wished all adults were like Father Andrew.

It was good to finally be sitting at the adults’ table. My first few years here, I wasn’t part of it at all.

When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the whole world...

We should be serving the kids’ needs, but there’s an interesting dynamic here. There’s far too many adults out there who think it’s about the kids serving their needs or performing for them.

Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it’s always because they know why.