A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous Huxley

A good book written for children can be read by adults.
Norton Juster

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
Philip Larkin

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.
Kenneth H. Cooper

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.
Virginia Satir

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
Paula Poundstone

Adults are obsolete children.
Theodor Geisel

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.
Elias Canetti

Adults under threat feel like children.
Martha Beck

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.
Linda Chavez

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.
Norman Macleod

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
Dennis Potter

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
Xavier Becerra

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.
Allen Boyd

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.
Margaret Mahy

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
Maggie Gallagher

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.
Robert Fripp

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.
Tom G. Palmer

Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.
Maggie Gallagher

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
Donna Tartt