Quotes with adults

  • Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
  • One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.
  • I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
  • Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
  • First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.
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  • George Orwell Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Aldous Huxley 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.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Philip Larkin Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Dr. Seuss Adults are obsolete children.
    Dr. Seuss
    American children's author, poet, and cartoonist (1904 - 1991)
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  • Karl Kraus Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ban Ki-moon By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable jobs for adults with autism, we integrate them into society.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Brene Brown First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Caitlin Flanagan Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Thomas Szasz Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Alice Hoffman I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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  • Gore Vidal I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • John Ruskin In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alice Walker 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.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Brian P. Cleary Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Sydney Joseph Perelman Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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  • Billy Corgan My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Lily Tomlin Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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