#adult

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#babies #baby #barren #damages #damaging

I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise. ↗

— John Green

#adult #am #body #bowled #called

Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books. ↗

— John Green

#also #any #authors #books #desire

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible. ↗

— John Grigg

#autobiography #common #hardly #less #now

I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult. ↗

— Matt Groening

#also #child #considered #found #goofy

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult. ↗

— Matt Groening

#books #covers #ever #extensively #fiction

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#adulthood #childhood #children #effects #follow

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

#being #editing #emotional #emotional life #i

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#been #compared #condescended #i #indian

From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life. ↗

— Wayne Allard

#big #contributing #employees #entire #gamble