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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
— Barbara Kingsolver
Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.
— Maria Montessori
It is not logical that millions of modern adults and children around the world are suddenly becoming insulin resistant
— John M. Poothullil
I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.
— Billie Jean King
I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
— Barbara Walters
This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.
— Rumi
Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.
— Martha Grimes
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
— Eleanor Catton
Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults.
— Maya Angelou
One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.
— Carl Sagan
Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them.
— Seymour Papert
Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that's something we should continue doing.
— Ashley Ormon
Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day.
— Johnny Carson
I talk to children like adults and to adults like children.
— Bryant McGill
To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.
— Maurice Sendak
The unit of every country is the family and the strength of the country is based on the smiles of the children and songs of the adults.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.
— Katherine Paterson
Parenting is a gift for adults' spiritual growth spurts, and it's a challenge to think of anything else that fills a home with more laughter!
— Gabriel Cousens M.D.
Children are a perpetual, self-renewing underclass, helpless to escape from the decisions of adults until they become adults themselves. And
— Orson Scott Card
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.
— Allison Winn Scotch
In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.
— Richard Louv
Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved.
— Katherine Rundell
Social thinking skills must be directly taught to children and adults with ASD. Doing so opens doors of social understandings in all areas of life.
— Temple Grandin
A good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.
— Philippa Pearce
For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish.
— Brian Sutton-Smith
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
— Tom G. Palmer
I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.
— Dexter Fletcher
Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths
— Neil Gaiman
Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right.
— Stefan Emunds
I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal.
— Blake Lively
At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.
— William Landay
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Now there are adults without children who go to Disney, and they are called weirdos. Very nice people. Absolutely crazy.
— Jim Gaffigan
Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.
— Seth MacFarlane
Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.
— Catherine McAuley
Adults weren't supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.
— Kate Morton
You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults.
— Franck Ribery
Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care.
— Michael K. Simpson
Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
— Cornelia Funke
Children do run from me. And so do some adults.
— Lana Parrilla
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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
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The PS3 will instill discipline in our children and adults alike. Everyone will know discipline.
— Ken Kutaragi
Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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
A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult.
— Charles Spurgeon
The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.
— Maria Montessori
Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
— Simon Van Booy
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
— Thomas Szasz
An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.
— Shigeru Miyamoto
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
All adults should strive to be more like children.
— Lorin Morgan-Richards
I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.
— Sharon Creech
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
— Erich Fromm
Spoon Feeding is only good for children not for adults. Let them think for themselves and don't baby them. They are just plain lazy.
— Ann Marie Aguilar
Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children.
— Laura Bush
I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
— Kate DiCamillo
