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In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. — Jessamyn West

Chemistry is good for fun - it's like baseball. It has its role for small children, but I can't see an adult being concerned with it. — Sheldon Lee Glashow

The sunlight blinded her. She felt purified by its rays. She had been in the dark for so long, and in so many ways.
Children of Ankh series — Kim Cormack

I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality. — Brian Sutton-Smith

Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives. — Dan Savage

adult's role is to "teach children limits with love or the world will teach them without it. — Paula Polk Lillard

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. — Margaret Mead

So many broken children living in grown bodies mimicking adult lives. — Ijeoma Umebinyuo

Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis. — Barbara Walters

Don't put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child. — Carolyn Byers Ruch

I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all! — Lindsay Lohan

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children. — Usher

It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult. — Colman McCarthy

The question isn't so much, Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult you want your child to grow up to be? — Brene Brown

Netiquette is overdelicate because kids use the internet. Adult content forms are triplicate, ASL. — David Chiles

Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine. — Dennis Prager

Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

Children's books are written to be read, adult books are written to be talked about at cocktail parties — Lloyd Alexander

Only where children gather
is there any real chance of fun. — Mignon McLaughlin

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults? — Marilyn Manson

Maybe God's goal wasn't for me to raise a good rule-following child. Instead, His goal was for me to raise a God-following adult. — Lysa TerKeurst

Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature. — Eleanor Catton

Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How children love the broken thing! And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done. Adult — Gregory Maguire

Every adult needs a child to teach; it's the way adults learn. — Frank A. Clark

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time. — Rachel Cusk

There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch. — Edmund De Waal

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults? — Marilyn Manson

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how. — Madeleine M. Kunin

Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children. — Richard C. Armitage

Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child. — Steve Maraboli

Children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children. — Nan Fairbrother

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement. — Jeffrey Kluger

She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again. The Children of Ankh — Kim Cormack

When you were a child you had dreams of becoming somebody as an adult. Have you lived up to your dreams? — Deepak Chopra

My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives. — Nancy Pearcey

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them. — William Steig

Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations. — Molly Ringwald

Every adult was once a child free from prejudice. — Mother Teresa

In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children. — Donna Shalala

Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull. — Mal Peet

I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies ... — Neil Gaiman

The difference between a child's toy and an adult toy is: location, location, location. — Demetri Martin

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan. — Brook Tesla

Children laugh 400 times per day ... the average adult laughs 15 times per day. Somewhere along the way we lost 385 laughs a day. — David Archuleta

My first work in comics had an Adult theme and I had to create a nom du plume to separate that work and my Children's entertainment. — Holly Golightly

If it's something you can't say in front of your parents then it's probably worth saying. — Max Redford

Mothers tend toward right on most things. — Kate Morton

Unfortunately on the road to Ankh everyone you love must die.
Children of Ankh series — Kim Cormack

How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of cutting people away? — Miranda Emmerson

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child. — Anderson Cooper

A child can be very happy with very simple things; adult must do the same! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation. — Alexander Mackendrick

If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well. — Black Hawk

I know you may feel so far that circumstances have directed your path, but right now I want you to know that you do have a choice. — Larry Itejere

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children. — Philip K. Dick

Adults under threat feel like children. — Martha Beck

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do. — Rebecca Miller

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were. — Neil Gaiman

One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child. — Wayne Dyer

You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight. — Romola Garai

I'd like to see people worry less about their inner child and more about their outer adult. — Ron Bennington

A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough. — Edmund Wallace Hildick

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult. — Mason Cooley

I wanted to make an adult vampire film, not something for children. — Alexandra Cassavetes

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence. — Ian McEwan

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child. — John Grant

You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness. — Kelley Armstrong

My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window. — Gail Caldwell

I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice change of pace each time. — John Boyne

A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult. — Charles Spurgeon

Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him. — Bernardo Bertolucci

All hero's are born out of the embers that linger after the fire of great tragedy.
Children of Ankh series — Kim Cormack

Children need adult men in their lives. — Emily Yoffe

It's easier to shape a child than to repair an adult. — Tony Evans

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He tries not to think about The Core ... but he couldn't deny it ... they were all becoming something else entirely. Darwin's Children — Natasha Larry

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults. — Richard K. Morgan

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

An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals. — Shigeru Miyamoto

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. — Jean Baudrillard

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too. — William Faulkner

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. — Neil Gaiman

Adults are obsolete children. — Dr. Seuss

I've learned ... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult. — Andy Rooney

Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care. — Michael K. Simpson

You were a child, you didn't mean to hurt my feelings. Children are ignorant. It takes an adult to choose to be cruel. — Jan Strnad

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult. — Richard Schmid

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children. — Alexander Chase

An adult is just a child who started to rot — Rene Barjavel

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. — Alice Walker

Abuse doesn't define you. — C. Kennedy

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better. — Maxim Gorky

She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win. — Neil Gaiman

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children. — Guy Laliberte

The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children. — Tim Walberg

So many mothers are unable to let their children go into the adult life and become literally attached to them giving rise to codependency — Sunday Adelaja

Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him. — Rick Warren

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies. — Vera B. Williams