“A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to image, connecting these images to memories, dreams, and larger ideas. Television, film, even the stage play, have already been imagined for us, but the book, in whatever form we choose to interact with it, forces us to complete it.” StillsBookIdeasPlayDreamFilmFormForceMemoriesChanceStageTelevisionAdultsActiveTranslateConnectingStage Play Author:Joe Meno
“I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark, where my father's from. I've traveled a lot, and having that sort of background probably increased the chance that I was going to remain curious as an adult about people who are different.” PeopleDifferentFatherBornChanceNew YorkBabyAdultsMovedBackgroundsCuriousTraveledArgentinaVenezuelaDenmark Author:Viggo Mortensen
“I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.” PeopleWorldWayWritingBookChanceAdultsNot InterestedPublish Author:John Green
“Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them.” IfsThinkingChildrenWould BeChanceAdultsDisappointedVagueDividingChasms Author:Caitlin Thomas
“The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something of their own feelings -- about themselves, their parents, their friends -- and their own situation as a kind of subject race, always at the mercy of the adults who mostly run their lives for them.” GivingWritingKindChildrenFeelingsRunningParentChanceRaceSituationNovelSubjectsAdultsMercyResponse Author:Nina Bawden
“A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the childs becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.” WayChildrenMightYoungChanceBecomingAdultsYoung AdultDefinitionsSecureBehaveFathering Author:Clyde Edgerton
“Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.” IfsWayAgeRememberChanceLossForgetWonderAdultsGainsTiedTake A ChanceCautiousHavoc Book:A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman Source: A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman
“Incredibly, nearly 70,000 Young Adults between 15-39 are diagnosed with cancer each year. 10,000 will not survive. This is a very important stat for me, because I fall in this category. I am one of these statistics. Unlike every other age group, there has been no improvement in the 5-year survival of young adults in 30 years. That means many young adults have the same chance of getting cancer and dying from it as they did in the 1970's. This is not OK.” YearsMeanHas BeensImportantAgeYoungFallChanceGroupsDyingSurvivalAdultsYoung AdultCancerImprovementStatisticsCategories Author:Jenna Morasca
“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.” MenChildrenLongHas BeensGivenChanceEducationTeachingMiddleIgnoranceDevelopmentHabitAdultsContraryIgnorantConventionsContinuingArrestedMiddle AgedCocoons Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925 Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925
“An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.” ShouldChanceMarriedAdultsPossessive Author:Mallory Ortberg
“I really am grateful to have so many people watch, and to be given the chance to create my next projects. I want to once again tackle the boundless possibilities of animated movies, and I hope to be able to create something that will leave both children and adults thinking that this world is a sparkling, brightly shining place.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantChildrenAbleNextGivenChanceWatchesPossibilityThis WorldProjectsAdultsGratefulShiningAnimatedBoundlessSparklingAnimated Movies Author:Mamoru Hosoda
“According to a new survey, 40 percent of adults in Mexico say they would move to the United States if they got a chance. The number would have been higher, but the other 60 percent already live here.” IfsHas BeensStatesMovingChanceUnitedNumbersUnited StatesHigherPercentAdultsMexicoSurveys Author:Conan O'Brien
“The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That’s the sound of being alive. It’s your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it’s all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can’t-do-this, and can’t-do-that’s, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.” FeelsHeartLittlesSpiritFunSoundChanceRaceBreakDarknessAliveRiskMagicDangerCallingAdultsBoxesEndlessCrueltyHaving FunCagesStolenOne Chance Book:The Child Thief: A Novel Source: The Child Thief: A Novel
“I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems to me that growing up is governed by the will, that one can choose to become an adult, but only at given moments. These moments come along fairly infrequently -during crises in relationships, for example, or when one has been given the chance to start afresh somewhere- and one can ignore them or seize them.” BelieveHas BeensMomentsSeemsUsedGivenProcessChanceGrowing UpGrowingExampleAdultsCrisisInevitableUncontrollable Author:Nick Hornby