The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.
Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be at the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers.
I think I am an adult.
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
I'm not sure I'm adult yet.
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.
I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.
I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.
To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.
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