Famous Quotes & Sayings

You don't think like adults for the simple reason that you don't have adult brains. You can only work with the brain you have. Because teens think and react from a more emotional part of the brain, they often have the illusion of indestructibility, which can cause dangerous behavior.

Catherynne M. Valente

You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a constant parade of every desire's satisfaction. It is a heady and terrifying place. It is the Otherworld. It is Fairyland. In fantasy, we make this literal.

This paints a picture that the adult consumer has not been distracted by digital piracy or burning a favorite song. Therefore, their voice can be significant on the charts. I think adult consumers have been conspicuous for a few years now.

It's just like regular duck hunting season - anywhere an adult can go, a kid can go. It's wide open. The only exception is it's only for juniors.

It's extremely important that people understand the danger that putting a baby in bed puts them at risk for strangulation and suffocation. Don't sleep with your baby or put the baby down to sleep in an adult bed.

It's a story that needs to be told. It's realistic. It's violent. It's my opinion that every American adult should see it.

Mariella Frostrup

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.

It was definitely an adult audience and it was all ethnicities. It was 56 percent non-African-American. The exit polls are 80 percent in the top two boxes with a 69 percent 'definite recommend.' I think the picture's going to have pretty good legs.

Hayao Miyazaki

The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.

Gillian Jacobs

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

Chris Hadfield

Don`t let life randomly kick you into the adult you don`t want to become

Jeanette Winterson

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

Generally speaking, the whole point of adult masquerades is that you get to do something that you don't normally do.

Jim Jackson

Gary and I do adult medicine, treating chronic illnesses such as diabetes and hypertension.

Bud Collins

Benoit should get one adult first prize ($41,000 and a Mercedes sedan) if she wins, plus one child's portion ($20,500 and a stroller).

Everyone was shocked because of their new assessment of property. It's been two years since then and people are back out. They can start breathing. They have a little extra income. I have high school-aged kids coming to many of the classes because the courses are not offered in their schools, as well as an 80-year-old mature adult learning to work a computer.

Every day in Oregon 20 kids start smoking. One-third of them will eventually die of a tobacco-related disease. Most adult smokers started using tobacco before they turned 18, which underscores the significance of this new policy.

As the most watched international sporting event, the FIFA World Cup allows A-B to connect our flagship brand with millions of adult beer drinkers.

specially in males. I suppose that in the hunting stage it was more easily gratified than it has been since. The chase was exciting, war was exciting, courtship was exciting. A savage would manage to commit adultery with a woman while her husband is

Once there is no state law, the city ordinance is what the cities and towns would go by and other places ... would have every right to keep punishing adult marijuana users if they chose to.

The surge in men's apparel sales came from some of the most unexpected places, such as young men buying a suit. Teens and young adult men have finally 'discovered the suit.' When exploring that further, NPD found that young men never owned a suit, never wore a suit and never saw their father in a suit - yet, they have migrated towards dressing up to be 'cool.' We are seeing a shift in the younger generation reaching their image through grooming and dressing up.

Billy Graham

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right. They say we're living in a new generation; let's be relevant, let's change God's law. Let's say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication's all right under certain circumstances. If it's 'meaningful.'

Jimmy Carter

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.

John Battelle

I've been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year - almost 20 years ago - I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I found the Mac, and I never looked back.

Thank goodness Sen. Grassley is providing some adult supervision. It's not just the taxpayers who are harmed by the current Monopoly money mentality in Washington, D.C., but more directly the hurricane survivors themselves. Every penny spent should help the survivors instead of lining the pockets of disaster profiteers.

Lee Johnson

Teens sometimes feel that inflicting pain on yourself will transfer the pain somewhere else. Teens doing this should find a trusted adult like a teacher or counselor to talk to.

John Green

Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.

William Raspberry

Teenage male elephants in a South African game park stopped their delinquent behavior after several adult bulls were introduced into the herd.

It was a knee-jerk reflex, ... It was very much like a little kid looking to an adult for what to do and what not to do.

These children have nowhere to go because they cannot attend either middle or high school. Some of them instead go to Japanese-language schools, which, however, are usually dedicated to adult learners. Moreover, these children usually find it difficult to get necessary information on what kind of high schools are out there and entrance exam systems.

These cuts will bring devastation to the delivery of vocational courses, apprenticeships and adult learning, seriously undermining the government's skills agenda.

The state can no more impose a special tax on adult entertainment than it could impose a special tax on theaters showing 'gay cowboy' movies.

David Day

The social aspect is always there. And a refreshing adult beverage after a fun sports event is always an enjoyable time.