Famous Quotes & Sayings

The students really enjoyed the response from the adult day care center. I think that's when it really hit us that these little things really are affecting other people.

The bottom line is you have an adult who took advantage of a child. It ought to be a slam dunk.

Banned Books Week is nothing more than a promotion of intolerance towards any librarian, teacher, or parent who questions the wisdom of giving adult material to children, Schools and libraries should be family oriented toward parents and safe places for children.

Back in the 90s, sociologists studied what they called 'boomerang children,' adult children who returned home or were in and out of their parents' home. What they found that it wasn't because they were freeloaders. It was because the economy was bad.

As long as they're doing what they describe they're doing, they're not going to have a problem. But it depends on what they do in reality. If they're engaging in adult uses, then that would be a problem.

Jackie Earle Haley

That transition from child to adult actor is so incredibly elusive. The roles that were coming to me as a young adult were not that great, but I was taking them anyway to pay the rent. And the more bad roles in bad movies I took, the less anybody wanted me for a good role in a good movie.

Aaron McGruder

that's what late-night cable is for, I guess. You don't have to hear it at 8 o'clock, but you sure can hear it at 11:30, or 11 o'clock, on Adult Swim, if you so desire -- it will be there for you.

To anyone who was saying such things about Ms. Lewinsky either reflected a lack of coordination, or thought or adult judgment. We are not going down that road. It is not the issue. A discussion of other people is not appropriate.

What is good for an adult may not be good for a child. The agency is really looking into whether or not smoke alarms can be more effective for a broader percentage of the population.

We found the event to be a unique way to reach the young adult population in Routt County to raise awareness about sexual violence.

The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or theme. The adult YA readers I know do actually consistently say that they are looking for an easy read, a fun read, an unchallenging read.

There will some unpleasant surprises and a sense of loss among single parents who have adult children living with them when they file this year.

The same lessons she teaches mainstream developers will apply to adult content developers, too. Who doesn't want a bigger audience?

I've seen changes in our teachers and in their motivation, through more relevant lesson plans, assessments that are more authentic, projects that are more real-world based ... more than at any other time. Students are performing at a higher level than ever before. It's new, it's working. It's goal-driven and career-based. Today's schools are becoming more like an adult learning environment.

I've taught everything, ... I've taught kindergarten. I've taught adult school at night. I taught math in high school for nine years. I think I have broad experience. I made a purpose to study multi-age education and how it benefits children.

What this would allow is a youth under age 17 accompanied by an adult would not need a license and not need a hunter education card. Prior to taking a hunter education course, a grandparent, an uncle, or maybe a Big Brother or Big Sister could take a young person out and show them hunting and see if they like it.

Jim Davies

What this Legislature desperately needs is adult supervision. Invest in our state. That's what you can count on me to do.

Larry Page

There's lots of technology you can use to deal with those issues. There might be an adult section, or something like that. I don't think that is going to be a big issue.

Rob Reiner

There's not one film that I've ever made that could get made today by a studio, not one - even 'A Few Good Men' because it's an adult courtroom drama, and studios do not make them any more. And so every movie that I make, have made and will make is always going be independently financed.

Matthew Lillard

There's nothing like being an adult male and being pulled under water without your own control.

I started taking courses to teach adult literacy and try to appear in every event I can to encourage people to think about it and realize how important it is.

Eric Kandel

I've been collecting art for much of my adult life. I started around 1960. And my wife and I really enjoy art a great deal. We don't have a lot of money, so we have works on paper, but we enjoy them a great deal.

Virginia Foxx

The private sector has proven the superiority and promise of cord blood in adult stem cell research by choosing to fund those areas.

Martha Wells

The public library my parents took me to in Fort Worth had the children's section next to the SF/F section, so I was reading adult SF/F at a very young age.

When I talk about the young adult market, entry-level workers, by definition, are the last to feel the benefits of a good economy and the first to feel the effects of a bad one.

We certainly have been monitoring it at the governor's level and it is a concern, just as an increase in violence in the adult prison system would be a concern.

Craig Roberts

I'm getting a lot of stick because my character in 'Young Dracula' wanted to be vampire, so now that I am a vampire, everyone's like, 'You finally did it!' But it's cool and I loved doing 'Young Dracula.' That show's finished and I don't know why it ended, so it was brilliant to go into 'Being Human,' which is like the adult version of it.

Alison Weir

In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and I could not put it down. When I finished it, I had to find out the true facts behind the story and if people really carried on like that in those days. So I began to read proper history books, and found that they did!

Tanith Lee

In my 20s some of my work for children was published by Macmillan. However, I was 27 before my adult novel... was taken by DAW Books in the USA. This enabled me finally to stop doing stupid and soul-killing jobs, and start working day and night as a professional writer.

Immature brain development is not an excuse for juvenile criminal activity, ... (But) it is an explanation which mitigates their culpability. It explains why they should be held accountable and in some cases punished severely, but never as severely as an adult who commits the same crime.

It's really more of an adult venue (and concert). It's really not geared to entertain children.

Congress has become a playground sandbox with no adult supervision.

Considering the fact that 60 percent of adult Americans are overweight or obese, this is a finding that affects a large percentage of the adult population in this country.