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.

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.