Adults Quotes - Page 28

• Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.

  David Foster Wallace

  Jobs, Writing, Artist

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• Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Kids, Focus, Mind Blowing

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

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• Please tell me we don't grow up and turn into the adults that drive us crazy.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Growing Up, Crazy, Please

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.186, Delacorte Press

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• Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

  Neal Shusterman

  Hurt, Children, Pain

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Downsiders”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Mean, Despair, Usual

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.56, Grove Press

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• We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Philosophy, Perfect

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.3, Vintage

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• the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,” as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Children, Fairy Stories, Play

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.348, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Children, Doe

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• Adults are the real monsters.

  Stephen King

  Real, Monsters

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• She did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. When adults say, "Teenagers think the hate invincible," with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.

  John Green

  Hate, Teenager, Stupid

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• At times like this, adults need a drink

  Haruki Murakami

  Needs, Drink

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• Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Opposites, Growth

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• If children could, if adults knew.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Ifs

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• It was a Friday night, she was at a club, and a good-looking man was currently giving her the I-want-to-take-you-home-and-I-hope-I-last-longer-than-five-minutes look… and she was thinking about pie, a young adult book, and feeding her cat. She was so turning into the cat lady at twenty-seven. Sweet.

  J. Lynn

  Friday, Sweet, Book

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• I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Courageous, Daring Greatly

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.22, Penguin

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• The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drift near each other when we need a ride from someone or when someone needs us to wash our hands.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Hands, Needs

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• We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.

  Adam Phillips

  Mother, Psychology, Understanding

  "Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life".

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• [E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear.

  Emma Donoghue

  Cute, Coffee, Kids

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.201, Pan Macmillan

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• Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

  Kate Morton

  Children, Ifs

  Abigail Tarttelin, Sahar Delijani, Christina Schwarz, Kate Morton, Douglas Kennedy (2013). “The Atria Summer 2013 Beach-Read Bag: A Free Collection of Excerpts from Some of Our Favorite Writers”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.

  Paula Poundstone

  Truth, Women, Book

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• What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is the perfectly serious indoctrination of the young in knowably false or biased history - the heroic legend drably disguised as text-book fact. With this creeps in the tacit assumption that other nations have not equally their heroes; perhaps even the belief - surely it is very bad biology - that we can literally 'inherit' tradition.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Hero, Long

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• He's treating her like she's fourteen and he's a normal adult, acting like he's taken her under his wing. Like he needs her detecting skills, same as Barrons did to Mac, and she's falling for it, same as Mac. He's lining up his dominoes, so they fall more easily when he feels like pushing them over, conserving energy so he doesn't have to hunt her when he's ready to kill her.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Taken, Fall, Skills

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.122, Delacorte Press

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• It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

  Darren Shan

  Children, Pain, Humility

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• Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.

  Francis Crick

  Children, Christian Education, Religion

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• Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

  Neil Gaiman

  Coraline, Made, Mets

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