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.
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.
Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.
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.
Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.
Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.
Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.
I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.
Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
As you become an adult and start to make your way in life, you realize how much your friends are your family - though you get to make fun of your friends, too.
