Adults Quotes - Page 25

• [I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely to grow into adults who can find these resources within themselves later on. (from the introduction)

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Support, Understanding

  Fred Rogers (2005). “Mr Rogers Parenting”

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• I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same.

  Diane Setterfield

  Children, Believe, Book

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• At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Hurt, Children, Pain

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.25, Beacon Press

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• There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not crawl, once

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Baby, Fall, Past

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• Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

  Joe Hill

  Children, Believe, Differences

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• Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, People, Behaviour

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• It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Thinking, Layers

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• If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind — then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.

  Holly Black

  Giving Up, Real, Father

  Holly Black (2013). “Doll Bones”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, War, Hero

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• Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Comfort, Should

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• I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories never made sense, and they were slow to start. They made me feel like there were secrets, Masonic, mythic secrets, to adulthood. Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies?

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Islands, Secret

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 18, 2013.

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• Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

  Neil Gaiman

  Memories, Childhood, Toys

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Enough, Ifs

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• The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mistake, Forever, Choices

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.184, Penguin

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• It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me?

  Marc Maron

  Mean, Years, Culture

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal (Enhanced Edition)”, p.161, Random House Group

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• I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

  Maurice Sendak

  Childhood, Scare, Remember

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.

  Neil Gaiman

  Secret, Storm, Lightning

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• I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Book, Long

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• As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

  Alain de Botton

  Character, Parent, Trying

  Twitter post from Aug 16, 2017

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• We often marvel at how introverted, geeky, kid 'blossom' into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe it's not the children who change but their environments. As adults they get to select the careers, spouses, and social circles that suit them. They don't have to live in whatever culture they'er plunked into.

  Susan Cain

  Children, Kids, Circles

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.253, Broadway Books

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• Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hurt, Said, Happened

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• She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Fighting, Winning

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• So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis

  Ellen Bass

  Healing, Writing, Responsibility

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• It's true. somewhere inside us we are all the ages we have ever been. We're the 3 year old who got bit by the dog. We're the 6 year old our mother lost track of at the mall. We're the 10 year old who get tickled till we wet our pants. We're the 13 year old shy kid with zits. We're the 16 year old no one asked to the prom, and so on. We walk around in the bodies of adults until someone presses the right button and summons up one of those kids.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Mother, Dog, Kids

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• You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'...You can't have it both ways.

  Ally Carter

  Running, Kids, Way

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