A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.
Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.
You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.
Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population only within the past 75 years.
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.
War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults.
I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.
I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.
I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.
If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.
Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.
Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.
