Quotes of: Adult Keyword

Scar: Simba, Simba, please. Please have mercy, I beg you. Adult Simba: You don't deserve to live. Scar: But, Simba, I... am... family. It's the hyenas who are the real enemy. It was their fault. It was their idea! Adult Simba: Why should I believe yo...

The Lion King

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most m...

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

The Book of Lost Things

Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive.

Stag

Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

Ned Vizzini

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

Edward Snowden

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

Ann Brashares

Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework...

The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview

Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...

The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview

Resiliency is the body's internal response to a stressful situation.

The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

Lois Lowry

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

Caitlin Flanagan

Personal opinion time: some of the bravest, strangest, coolest stories right now are being told in the young adult space. It's stuff that doesn't fly by tropes or adhere to rules -- appropriate, perhaps, since young adults tend to flick cigarettes in...

500 Ways to Write Harder

Adults discourage children from asking philosophical questions, first by being patronizing to them and then by directing their inquiring minds towards more "useful" questions. Most adults aren't themselves interested in philosophical questions. They ...

Philosophy and the Young Child

Mr. Parker: Holy smokes. Do... Do you know what this is? This is... A lamp! Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] It was indeed a lamp. Mr. Parker: Isn't that great? What a great lamp. Mother: I don't know... Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] The old man's eyes ...

A Christmas Story

I talk to children like adults and to adults like children.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

O. J. Simpson

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

Mark Leyner

I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

Dani Shapiro