People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.
Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.
Now you're an adult, Katya!" he'd said, picking her up under the armpits like he'd been doing since she'd been born.
All this bunch of so-called 'adults' was doing was making enemies of one another when what they really needed to be concentrating on was how to get out alive.
As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just .
The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.
Courage comes in many forms. One of them is the ability to run at high speeds while wearing adult diapers.
Just before my 16th birthday, Natalie Dormer said to me, 'As soon as you turn 16, you're going to work adult hours. People will try take advantage of you, so it's important not to be a pushover.'
Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell.
People who concern themselves with the rights of other adults who engage in consensual acts involving sex, love, and/or eating croissants together are damaged and in pain.
Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities.
When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.
The Doctor: You know how adults tell you everything's going to be fine, just to make you feel better? Amelia: Yes. Doctor: Well.....everything's going to be fine.
With teenagers, the emotions are higher and things are more dramatic. That doesn't mean adults don't also act like children in their own way.
Vivien thought how ugly adults could be, how weak. So used to getting what they wanted that they didn't know the first thing about being brave.
It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.
