Adults Quotes - Page 28

• The best thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Creativity, World, Innocent

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• There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire their adult dress, and the changes which occur in this with years. Little, too, is known about the laws and routes of bird migration, and much less about the final disposition of the untold thousands which are annually produced.

  Paul Bartsch

  Science, Years, Law

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• This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.

  Charles Orville Whitley

  Engineering, Evil, Choices

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• When we worship you in the form of bread... we always see you as an adult. But every year at Christmas, you reveal yourself to us as a child born in a crib. We stand in silent amazement...In silent adoration we stand before the mystery, like Mary when the shepherd came and told her what they had seen and heard: 'She kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.'

  Chiara Lubich

  Children, Heart, Years

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• When you're growing up your mother says, "Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold." When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

  Diane Arbus

  Mother, Growing Up, Rubber

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• Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Growing Up, Waiting, Grows

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• It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws are known, the door of the future will in a measure be opened; determination of the child's present status will enable us to forecast what manner of adult he will become.

  Lewis Terman

  Determination, Children, Future

  Lewis Madison Terman (1919). “The Intelligence of School Children: How Children Differ in Ability, the Use of Mental Tests in School Grading and the Proper Education of Exceptional Children”

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• You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Love, Fall, People

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• Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.

  Mike Ditka

  Sweet, Mean, Littles

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• Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?".

  Robin Williams

  Children, Memorable, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see how child rearing patterns produce nurturing adult behaviors.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Children, Mean, Looks

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• Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature adult....Many young teachers have a tendency to seek popularity, resorting to tactics that can create endless problems.

  Jim Brown

  Teacher, Teaching, Age

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• The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

  Carl Rogers

  Teaching, Learning, Purpose

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• When you were a child you had dreams of becoming somebody as an adult. Have you lived up to your dreams?

  Deepak Chopra

  Dream, Children, Becoming

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• The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

  Pete Hamill

  Library, Values

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• If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade. There has been no global warming this century. None

  Mark Steyn

  School, Firsts, Graduates

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• My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying the dire reality we are facing. Leadership can come form anywhere.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Reality, People, Leader

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• You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.

  Terry Rossio

  Decision, Important, Faith In Yourself

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• We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires.
  We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Moving, Catholic, Ego

  Pope Benedict XVI's Homily during a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica before the conclave of cardinals, www.vatican.va. April 18, 2005.

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• The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

  Pablo Picasso

  Laughter, Children, Half

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• Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, People, Insanity

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• Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her.

  Billy Graham

  Children, Years, Parenthood

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• The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Parent, Stubborn

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• The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder about space and time until I was an adult. I then delved more deeply into the problem than any other adult or child would have done.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Space, Giving

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.25, Princeton University Press

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• I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Thinking, Space

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