None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

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

I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.

The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults

A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself.

Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.

You can't raise a happy, more resilient kid if you're not a happy, more resilient adult.

We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee—but there are no instant adults.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

Either you participate in the community like an adult or you leave and do your own thing.

I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.

Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.

I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.

In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500.

It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.

I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

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

As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

To be adult in relationship is not to be conflict-free, it's to resolve conflicts mindfully.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.

The best thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent.

When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money.

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid.

A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.

I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.

Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

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

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.

In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?

I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

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