Famous Quotes & Sayings

We say that we are going to have fun classes for boys and girls ages two to 99, ... That is because we have adult classes as well even though it is the children's art center.

Alfie Kohn

I applaud Sudbury Valley's focus on freedom, but not what I take to be an inattention to community. Sudbury has a libertarian bent, and the worldview seems to see all adult involvement as an authoritarian restriction of personal autonomy. Total autonomy is not developmentally appropriate. Kids need guidance and many of them need structure at the same time that they need the opportunity to learn how to make good decisions.

Chris Wooding

I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next.

Kevin Williamson

I don't look at teens as teens. I think maybe that's the whole trick to what I do, is that they're just smart, sophisticated adult characters. And they happen to be 15.

Andrea Seigel

I do not believe that I will ever write an adult novel from an animal's point of view unless someday it becomes suddenly appealing to me to make a narrator a mentally ill pet. Never say never.

Bill Griffith

Cartooning has come a long way. It started out as an adult medium, for satirical purposes; then the appeal to children got emphasized.

Jennifer McMahon

I believed then - in a deep, easy way that is impossible for me as an adult - that there was more to this world than meets the eye. Trees had spirits; the wind spoke. If you followed a toad or a raven deep into the heart of the forest, they were sure to lead you to something magical.

The good news continue to be the fact that with growth in its Hollister division, a fast-growing Internet business, a new concept coming in the third quarter and flattish comps (sales compared to last year) in the core adult business, healthy top-line growth should be sustainable. Also, Abercrombie's men's business is finally beginning to show some life after three years of negative comparable sales.

David Hudson

The court ruled that the law was content-based because it restricted only sexually explicit adult programming,

The combination of these new controls, the existing ESRB rating system, and voluntary commitments by retailers not to sell Mature and Adult Only games to minors strikes the right balance between strong self-regulation and the ultimate responsibility of parents to take charge of the media their kids consume.

Jennifer Granholm

This is a commonsense law that provides parents with the tools they need to protect their children from the effects of violence and graphic adult content,

Leslie Moonves

The CW will be able to do in its first season something truly remarkable -- program already hit shows every single day of the week, shows ranked No. 1 or No. 2 in the most-coveted young adult demos.

Brooke Shields

The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.

Paul Rodriguez

Those are adult magazines. Anybody can own them, ... It doesn't prove the charge.

Everybody is trying to reach out to as wide an audience as possible. It may have some adult humor that goes over the heads of other audiences, but it's never so colorful that it would affect the MPAA and how they rate the movie.

The big curry boom started 30 years ago and curry has almost become a staple food in this country. We now have British parents who have eaten curry all their adult life exposing their children to it at a very young age. It's not surprising they love it; it's the best food there is.

The biggest impact on adult entertainment will be in marketing.

Terry Teachout

Not surprisingly, my parents' generation did everything they could to make life easier for their own children. Was that good for us? I wonder. It certainly didn't do us any good from a cultural point of view. I'm struck by how few boomers have embraced adult culture in middle age.

The average adult goose is over 7 years old. It has been hunted for six months a year its whole life, so it has seen decoy spread every day for seven years. They pretty well understand ... they don't go into decoys very easy. They have had a thousand days where they have flown out from their roost and been exposed to decoy spreads. We have changed the goose. This is a more wary goose than we had 10 years ago.

These symptoms may be easier to ignore in girls but become more prominent with mounting adult responsibilities.

I want to make it clear the kid did everything he was supposed to do. It was an adult error.

A child is still a child, ... Because he commits a crime, that does not make him an adult overnight.

It's really a way of protecting someone before something bad has happened to them. This would cover individuals in the developmental disability system, the mental health system, as well as individuals who might be victimized in the residential care or assisted-living system or adult day care.

Any adult can distinguish reality from fiction. But you cannot expect a child to make proper judgements.

David Brooks

It's been a tough summer for the adult audience. They're champing at the bit to find something fresh. This was a great opportunity to kick off for a couple of weeks with no competition.

It's a very important decision for him. He's been a member of the county legislature and Assembly most of his adult life. He has to look at this long and hard to see what his possibilities are of winning that seat.

It's becoming harder and harder to argue that embryonic cells have uses that adult cells do not.

It's really more of an adult venue (and concert). It's really not geared to entertain children.

Congress has become a playground sandbox with no adult supervision.

Considering the fact that 60 percent of adult Americans are overweight or obese, this is a finding that affects a large percentage of the adult population in this country.

The odds of death go up dramatically among babies who use adult beds. The numbers are gigantic, much higher than I had thought. It's the best data available right now.

That's adult money. That's a really significant impact that this population is having. They have a major, major impact on this state and its businesses and its revenues.

That goes for youth leagues to the adult leagues. This place gives everyone a place to practice regardless of the weather.