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 They forget about it like a phone number that’s no longer valid.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.

As a very young person, I was ready and willing to explore and try new things, unhampered by the daily routines that adults so often feel obligated to adhere to.

tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.

Tigers are not stuffed toys. Cute babies grow up to be unmanageable adults who are often relegated to cramped cages or dungeon-like basements or are simply abandoned.

Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago....

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

They bounce pretty quickly from one activity to the next. Sometimes it is more difficult on the parents and the adults than it is on the kids.

We didn’t grow up in the same house, but we became very close as adults. We often said nothing or nobody was going to keep us apart. We were sisters.

That was something . ‘ . ‘ . I can’t explain that, … I’m more of an adult now. I don’t do all the things I used to. I just sit back and try to talk to...

We have lots of unions who are planning to strike, so, I mean, adults striking from their work. And that is so incredibly important to show that this is such an — this is not...

[The emphasis today is on relatively low-tech screens for signs of incipient chronic disease — adult-onset diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, cancer and the like. To help doctors track these indicators, the preventive services task...

DOSTIE: Let’s be honest here. People? Sometimes they suck. But kids, well, they’re like a new snowfall, you know?

Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties were done we were give “permission” to read. In other words, our elders...

Mental preparation is key. I don’t think it’s a gender thing. It is a lot of pressure for these kids to be out there. If you put yourself in that situation as an adult, it’s...

You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad.

Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their attention as they explore their new surroundings. Adults however, have grown up hearing the word ‘no’, ‘don’t do that,’ and...

I’m going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside, they look just like they always...

From what I can tell, the chief distinguishing factor between children and adults is that children hear everything while appearing not to and adults hear nothing while pretending to listen.

It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

If you dont have a parent or an adult, a teacher or a mentor really see you, really love you, ‘Yes, there are things you do I dont like, but youre fantastic, youre good enough....

Tomorrow this is going to be an enormous audience of grown-up salaried adults. It’s going to be even more difficult to get them then.

We are facing an existential crisis… it will have a massive impact on our lives in the future, but also now, especially in vulnerable communities. And I think that we should wake up, and we...

Gender has become part of the defining way that youth organise themselves and rebel against adults.

The girlishness and winsomeness (of spring and summer) have given way to a very adult approach to dressing, … It basically concentrates on a woman’s curves, on sophistication, on ‘getting dressed’ as opposed to something...