“My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.” TryingHalfOur LivesWifeSpecialAdultsMy WifeCalifornia Author:Pete McCloskey
“I have a four-and-a-half-year-old and, when she was two and a half, she would make my wife and I do voices, like Woody and Jessie the Cowgirl, or Elmo, or Yogi Bear and Booboo. If we didn't do it, she would scream at us. So, my wife and I would have adult conversations as Yogi Bear and Booboo. It was just a nightmare year.” IfsYearsTwoVoiceHalfFourWifeBearsConversationAdultsMy WifeNightmareScreamWoodyYogiCowgirlsElmoYogi Bear Author:Judd Apatow
“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.” ShouldLiteratureBornHalfGroupsAdultsPopulationProportionRequirementsCitizenshipHispanicProficiency Author:Linda Chavez
“I made some friends at Listerine and they taught me a little bit about oral care. That half of adults suffer from oral disease, that the number one chronic disease among children is oral disease, that we're only taking care of 25% of our mouths when brushing alone and there are more germs in your mouth than there are people on the planet.” PeopleChildrenLittlesMadeCareSufferingBitsNumbersHalfTaughtPlanetsDiseaseLittle BitMouthsAdultsGermsBrushing Author:Ginnifer Goodwin
“She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.” PeopleWorldBelieveChildrenEndsMotherBornHalfQualityForeverSonDaughterAdultsWeightBurdenActiveCarrieBoresRedeemerSon And DaughterWronged Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell
“For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.” WritingTwoDifferentUseBrainHalfAudienceAdults Author:Sara Shepard
“... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.” LawCommunityHalfMoralityAdultsSlaveryVicesPurityCustomsInconsistentSuffrageOne HalfWoman Suffrage Author:Tennessee Celeste Claflin
“At a certain meeting two and a half people were converted to Christ. A friend asked if he meant, two adults and a child. The facts were just the opposite two children and an adult. When a child is led to Christ, a whole life is saved!” PeopleIfsChildrenTwoWholeFactsLife IsCertainChristHalfAdultsOppositesMeetingsSavedWhole Life Author:Dwight L. Moody
“More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious conversion here is much, much higher than it is anywhere in Europe, for example.” ReligiousHalfExampleChangedHigherAdultsEuropeLifetimeRateConversion Author:Susan Jacoby
“We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. For adults, we've got HIV and TB are still huge; for kids malaria is still killing a half million kids a year out of that 6 million. We probably need some vaccines, but we need a little more data to make sure we're getting the vaccines that will save the most lives.” NeedsYearsLittlesStillsKidsDifferencesHalfMillionsMissingHugeAdultsKillingDataDozenHivVaccinesMalaria Author:Bill Gates
“A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.” ChildrenSpeakHalfAdults Author:Zoe Saldana
“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.” PeopleInspirationalYearsHalfHealthyAdultsDignityWeightPatienceMalesBoredomBoresYear OneHalf Time Author:John Updike
“Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face.” Has BeensEndsHardUseFilmFacesHoursHalfCarAdultsBritishCoreHotelWorking ItRacingEditingHalf HoursRace CarBlokesHard CoreTop GearCool Cars Author:Jeremy Clarkson
“Even if there was such a thing as a half-price sale at the local Ming outlet shop, she would have to work ten lifetimes to make up such a sum. Always supposing that it wasn't one of a kind. Panic was no longer merely rearing. It was thundering through her at full throttle. There was only one thing to be done, she realized. The mature, responsible, adult thing to do. Hide the evidence.” IfsKindDoneHalfOne ThingTenEvidenceAdultsResponsibleLifetimeLocalsThings To DoShopsMaturePanicOutletsSupposingOne Of A KindSupposing ThatThrottle Author:Alexandra Ivy
“There’s something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There’s also something comforting in thinking that if they made it this far, relatively unscathed, then maybe you didn’t turn out half bad either.” IfsThinkingMadeTurnsHalfSeeingChildhoodAdultsVicesVulnerableMade ItComfortingVice Versa Author:Vicki Pettersson
“The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.” FirstsChildrenLife IsHalfLaughterAdults Author:Pablo Picasso