“The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.” HumansChildrenDiesProcessCasesAliveAdultsTornLimbsFetus Author:Anthony Kennedy
“In my books my characters experience things as they are. My books allow youth an honest look at important issues affecting them. As adults we want to believe things like sex abuse or drug use are not happening anymore, or happening less and less, but that's not the case and we need to acknowledge that. We can't make life prettier for youth, but we can arm them.” WantNeedsBelieveLooksImportantBookCharacterUseSexCasesIssuesHonestYouthArmsDrugHappeningsAdultsAbuseAcknowledgeImportant IssuesDrug UseSex Abuse Author:Ellen Hopkins
“Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live in an age that is very permissive, both legally and socially, on a wide range of subjects from Karl Marx to kinky sex. This has not always been the case. Things that even children freely see and read and hear today -- writings, pictures, words -- would have been banned as just plain obscene, even for adults, as recently as the middle of the twentieth century.” WritingChildrenHas BeensIdeasMomentsAgeTodaySexCasesMiddleSubjectsCenturySpeechAdultsWideRangeContractsFreedom Of SpeechScopeTwentieth CenturyBannedObsceneKinky Author:Lawrence M. Friedman
“I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going on these. If I couldn't do the readings, I wouldn't do the [signing] tours. I get to stand up there and read to a bunch of adults who in many cases nobody's read to in years, since they were about five. They just squat on the floor. That's enormously enjoyable.” IfsYearsReadingFunBitsCasesFiveAdultsBunchEnjoyableSigningSquat Author:Neil Gaiman
“I think that because of YouTube, because of MySpace, because of the digital domain that we have on the Internet, the younger generation is much more open to information. I think it's so much easier for them to gain information and trade information, and they have become more aware. In some cases, more aware than their own parents and adults, as to what's going on in the world. I find that really intriguing and interesting, and I think there is a brewing of a whole new generation of activists coming.” ThinkingWorldWholeParentInterestingCasesGenerationsInformationInternetEasierAdultsGainsTradeDigitalActivistDomainYoutubeIntriguingNew GenerationYounger GenerationBrewing Author:Serj Tankian
“While the Internet generally tends to have a stress-relieving function for adults - as long as they aren't inclined toward sex addiction - I don't see this being the case for adolescents.” LongSexCasesInternetAdultsFunctionStressAddictionSex AddictionStress Relieving Author:Volkmar Sigusch
“The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.” PersonsStillsAttitudeCasesAdultsCorrelationKeep LearningChanging AttitudeRare Person Author:Keith Henson
“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
“I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.” ThinkingChildrenTodayCasesAudienceToo MuchDangerTelevisionNewsAdultsHoneyCartoon Author:Jerry Lewis
“It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.” WritingChildrenLiteratureCasesAdultsCriticismCriticsMaturePublishing Author:Alice Walker
“I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.” WorldWellsWholeSocialRealizingCasesChildhoodAdultsAll ThingsNotionKingdomsBrutalNastyBeing CoolArbiter Author:Peter Cameron
“I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval.” ThinkingInspirationalGivingFeelsEnoughMomentsYoungFallDecisionCasesWorstPeriodsAdultsFalling In LoveTeenagerFascinatingScarApprovalTeensCompellingRest Of Your LifeExhilaratingTime PeriodsBeing A Teenager Author:Stephenie Meyer
“Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god,for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then... what is the point?” IfsKnowsHeartSeemsHeavenCasesDemandAdultsCreatorPunishmentBitterBehaveLatterTransparentCatapultsBitter Experience Author:R. A. Salvatore