“I think we should allow for schools within schools, where 100 out of 500 kids may be organized by the way they work and what they do, and what they do often is more progressive. I would like to see a lot of kids of different ages, maybe even some adults, work together on a project.” ThinkingWayShouldMayDifferentKidsAgeSchoolTogetherProjectsAdultsOrganizedWorking TogetherProgressiveOften IsDifferent Ages Author:Seymour Papert
“I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.” PeopleThinkingYearsStillsAgeYoungCommunityRecordsSafeAdultsYoung AdultBuyingMetalsTeenage Author:Blake Judd
“Meditators are shown to have thickening in parts of the brain structure that deal with attention, memory and sensory functions. This was found to be more noticeable in older, more practiced meditators than in younger adults which is interesting because this structure usually tends to get thinner as we age.” AgeFoundMemoriesInterestingDealsAttentionBrainAdultsFunctionStructureSensory Author:Philippa Perry
“As an anti-hunger advocate and longtime member of the Entertainment Council for Feeding America, I have become more and more aware of the issues surrounding hunger in our country, a country where 68% of adults above the age of 20 are overweight or obese. What a staggering thought, when 1 in 6 adults don't have enough food to eat on a regular basis. Good, healthy meal choices play a huge part of controlling weight and other health related issues.” CountryEnoughPlayAgeAmericaChoicesIssuesHugeHealthyMembersAdultsWeightBasesHungerEntertainmentOur CountryRelatedMealsFeedingCouncilGood HealthOverweightStaggeringObeseAge Of 20Health Related Author:Samantha Harris
“Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.” YearsMindHumansDoneBodyAgeSoundDarkHuman BeingsAdultsDetermineMedicalDark AgesSound Mind Author:Benjamin Cardozo
“I had so many adults around me reminding me that I was a kid. I also had a lot of adults saying things to me like, "When I was your age..." and sort of idealizing it. I didn't like that they idealized it.” KidsAgeAdultsReminding Author:Mara Wilson
“It's a great place to be at 36 because you're an adult and you're responsible for how you impact other people, the direction of your own life [too], but you're also young enough to say, "You know what? I'm not sure of where I'm at, and I'm going to change that course and do something different. I'm going to look at life differently." I think that's the magic of that age.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLooksDifferentEnoughAgeYoungCoursesMagicAdultsResponsibleImpactNot Sure Author:Milo Ventimiglia
“You're 25 and you're looking at adults of your parents' age and older saying, "I don't want to live that way," and this is how it happens. It evolves slowly and it's not the result of any movement. It's just young people look at the way their parents are living and if they don't like it they don't want to duplicate it.” PeopleIfsWayWantLooksHappensAgeYoungParentResultsMovementAdultsEvolveDuplicate Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.” YearsAgeMovingMy OwnAdultsEuropeIndiaEnglandEightFinanceFranceSwitzerlandFrance And England Author:Indira Gandhi
“There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and most kids read an age group up anyway.” ChildrenBookKidsAgeGroupsHugeAdultsAreasAppropriateOverlapping Author:Terry Pratchett
“It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I know there has to be hope. I don't necessarily feel that responsibility for adults, but I emphatically feel it for children. That's the only difference. There's no syntax difference. There's no semantics difference. There's no thematic difference.” IfsKnowsFeelsWritingChildrenStoriesKidsAgeDifferencesResponsibilityReaderAdultsSyntaxSemanticsThematic Author:Kate DiCamillo
“I was the sensitive, shy kid that was teased a lot. I was very definitely bullied. I mean, from an early age, I dressed more like an adult, you know, jackets and very slim trousers and a raincoat. And I - even when I was 7, 8, 9-years-old, carried an attache case to school because I just hated the sloppiness of a book bag.” KnowsYearsMeanBookKidsAgeSchoolCasesAdultsHatedSensitiveBagsShyJacketsBulliedSlimTrousersSloppiness Author:Tom Ford
“Instilling values of faith at an early age is important. Listening them through adolescence comes more important than teaching because if you haven't instilled in them at early ages now it's time to listen and get your report card and let them find their way and then as an adult let them stand aside.” IfsWayImportantAgeValuesTeachingHavensListeningAdultsCardsReportsAdolescenceReport Cards Author:T. D. Jakes
“There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.” IfsWantMatterAgeYoungSportsPracticeExerciseAdultsWeightNo Matter WhatHeightRequirementsCompetitorsSkatesGood Exercise Author:Nancy Kerrigan
“When I lost my father, I thought I learned about grief and transition. However, nobody tells you what it's like to lose your mother. They don't tell you that you're going to feel like an orphan at whatever age you are as an adult.” FeelsAgeMotherFatherLostLosesGriefAdultsTransitionOrphan Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.” YearsChildrenCountryAgePastMotherFallGrowthBornFiveViolenceRiskCrimeDiseasePercentAdultsIncreasePrimariesWagesLiteracySpursDecreaseLikelihoodLater In LifePrimary Education Author:Shakira
“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.” FactsAgeTermTalkingStrangeWalkingAdultsThirtyBirthdayFunny AgingBirthdays And Aging30th Birthday Author:C. S. Lewis
“Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.” WorldAgeNumbersAdultsWho I AmAges Is Just A Number Author:Mandy Moore
“What is an adult? A child blown up by age.” ChildrenAgeTimeAdultsBirthdayAdulthood Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.” FeelingsSeemsAgeLiteratureTrustAdultsSevenEightBirthdayTrue Feelings Book:A Collection of Essays Source: A Collection of Essays
“There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.” KidsAgeInterestGoes OnAdultsDecidedListsRelateFlashRobinsGrownupsSidekicks Author:J. Michael Straczynski
“The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.” ThinkingShouldAgeBehaviorAdultsAddressesCriticizeTraitsIrrationalAbolishIrresponsibility Author:Adora Svitak
“A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.” ChildrenAgeRealizingFamilyAdultsMaturityAdulthood Author:Thomas Szasz
“Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.” FirstsTwoSoulMomentsEyeAgeCreationAdultsWindowEssenceProtectionIntimacyInnocenceVulnerabilityJustifyStillnessQuantityRefugeCamouflageSunbeams Author:Marianne Wiggins
“And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in twenty viewers actually had a bad reaction. And it was mostly kids who were affected. I mean younger than you guys. I think the average age was about ten.' That made me feel somewhat better. But that was a kid's show,' said Jen. 'Maybe it affects everyone, but not that many adults were watching.' That made me feel less better. I wanted my protective bangs back.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsShouldMeanMadeSaidShowsKidsAgeWantedGuyTenSafeAdultsTwentiesAverageReactionsAffectedViewersBangsProtective Author:Scott Westerfeld
“it's weird how much people change. for example, when i was a kid i loved all of these things..and over time all of them just fell away, one after another, replaced by friends and IMing and cell phones and boys and clothes. it's kind of sad, if you think about it. like there's no continuity in people at all. like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult," and after that you're a totally different person. maybe even a less happy person. maybe even a worse one.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindPersonsDifferentKidsAgeYoungBoysExampleClothesAdultsYoung AdultPhonesCellsTwelveReplacedContinuityCell PhoneLike SomethingThirteenHappy PersonRupture Author:Lauren Oliver
“You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.” KnowsWorldHardKidsAgeDealsStageAdultsMaturity Book:The Lucky One Source: The Lucky One
“It's true. somewhere inside us we are all the ages we have ever been. We're the 3 year old who got bit by the dog. We're the 6 year old our mother lost track of at the mall. We're the 10 year old who get tickled till we wet our pants. We're the 13 year old shy kid with zits. We're the 16 year old no one asked to the prom, and so on. We walk around in the bodies of adults until someone presses the right button and summons up one of those kids.” YearsBodyKidsAgeMotherLostBitsWalksDogAdultsPressesTrackShyPantsWetButtonsMallsPromZits Author:Jonathan Tropper
“A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does” ThinkingInspirationalYearsChildrenDoeTwoAgeThreeParentBoysAdultsTeenagerTwo YearsThree YearsTeenage Author:Lewis Blaine Hershey
“You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.” TryingLongAgeLastsLordAdultsTiredAgingConvince Author:Robert Breault
“What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature. We now know that an adult mammalian cell can fire up all the dormant genetic instructions that shut down as it divides and specializes and ages, and thus can become a source of new life. You can outlaw technique; you cannot repeal biology. Writing after Wilmut's successful cloning of the sheep, Dolly, that research on the cloning of human beings cannot be suppressed.” KnowsLifeWritingHumansAgeLawScienceHuman BeingsSuccessfulFireSourcePoliticianResearchAdultsTechniqueTricksCellsBiologyDividesInstructionSheepNew LifeLaws Of NatureGeneticsOutlawDormantCloning Author:Charles Krauthammer
“There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire their adult dress, and the changes which occur in this with years. Little, too, is known about the laws and routes of bird migration, and much less about the final disposition of the untold thousands which are annually produced.” YearsLittlesStillsProblemAgeLawScienceKnownBirdResearchAdultsDressesFinalsAcquireRoutesDispositionMigrationUnsolved Problems Author:Paul Bartsch
“Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature adult....Many young teachers have a tendency to seek popularity, resorting to tactics that can create endless problems.” LooksProblemAgeYoungTeacherTeachingStudentsAdultsEndlessTendenciesLook UpMaturePopularityPeersTacticsBuddyPals Author:Jim Brown
“I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.” KnowsBookSelfHelpingHappensAgeBlackWhiteSelf HelpConversationMy FriendsAdultsAreasBallsMediumsGrayBlack And WhiteCheeseTemperatureLife HappensGray Area Author:Justin Timberlake