Adults Quotes - Page 35

• I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult world. Toys are not innocent.

  Chris Burden

  Children, Reflection, Tools

  Interview with Sonia Campagnola and Valentina Sansone, www.flashartonline.com. 2009.

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• Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.

  Andre Marrou

  Government, Daddy, Political

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• I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspiring, Want, Retiring

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• As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

  Charles E. Burchfield

  Children, Learning, Fighting

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• I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in the night I guess I'm just addicted To the pain of delight

  Melissa Etheridge

  Pain, Night, Justice

  Melissa Etheridge, Laura Morton (2011). “The Truth Is . . .: My Life in Love and Music”, p.90, Random House

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• Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life.

  Sam Brownback

  Baby, Children, Pain

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• Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

  Orson Scott Card

  Believe, Matter, Way

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.157, Macmillan

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• In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Personality, Attention

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• Today it is not alive. What, then, is this experience of humanism? With the above survey I have tried to show you that the experience of humanism is that — as Terence expressed it — “Nothing human is alien to me”; that nothing which exists in any human being does not exist in myself. I am the criminal and I am the saint. I am the child and I am the adult. I am the man who lived a hundred thousand years ago and I am the man who, provided we don't destroy the human race, will live hundred thousand years from now.

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Men, Years

  "On Being Human".

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• That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature ‘liberty’ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can.

  Livy

  Spring, Heart, Maturity

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• The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Childhood, World, Used

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• The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more than merely aware of the idol he wishes to destroy. He must be intimate with it and understand it in all its aspects. This means that he must have devoted serious thought to it, and have beliefs of his own which will stand up in the place of the broken idol. In other words, any child can complain, but it takes an adult to clash with accepted beliefs . . . an adult with ideas.

  Alfred Bester

  Children, Mean, Order

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• In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he helps raise the kids, and he protects the people. His entire life is toward balance and cooperativeness. The ideal of manhood is the same as the ideal of womanhood. You are autonomous, self-directing, and responsible for the spiritual, social and material life of all those with whom you live.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Spiritual, Kids, Native American

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• I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional love, respect, and confidence.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Children, Believe, Unconditional Love

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.16, Vintage

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• I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Believe, Moving

  "Questions to an Artist Who Is Also an Author: A Conversation between Maurice Sendak and Virginia Haviland". Book by Virginia Haviland, 1970.

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• Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a childrens book.

  Maureen Johnson

  Book, Magic, Special

  "Let JK Rowling's magic dispel prejudice about her 'proper adult novel'" by Maureen Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2012.

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• Some favorite expressions of small children: "It's not my fault...They made me do it...I forgot." Some favorite expressions of adults: "It's not my job...No one told me...It couldn't be helped." True freedom begins and ends with personal accountability. -Dan Zadra It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

  Josiah Stamp

  Jobs, Children, Responsibility

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• We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Choices, Accountability

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.151, Westminster John Knox Press

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• People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at so much per minute wouldn't have needed any treatment at all if they had had the right care as children.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Children, Years, People

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• Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired as they are of the former, they are hungry for the latter

  Michael Gurian

  Tired, Boys, Men

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• Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will remain one for the foreseeable future, and infants belong in the nursery. The 'adults', that is, the executives in charge of existing businesses or products will have neither the time nor understanding for the infant.

  Peter Drucker

  Team, Responsibility, Effort

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1985). “Innovation and entrepreneurship: practice and principles”

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• There was nothing unusual about my victory. The entire story was back in eighth place. There is simply no way to imagine how good Jim Ryun is or how far he will go after he becomes an adult. What he did was more significant than Roger Bannister's first mile under 4 minutes.

  Dyrol Burleson

  Running, Victory, Stories

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• Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we have been silenced. We have to help our daughters. Understanding it within ourselves and helping our young girls stand up for themselves is one way.

  Jane Fonda

  Girl, Daughter, Women

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• Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known previously. It circulated like weird serum, cold on the right side of her body, then hot on the left, where her heart was. It seemed to come nowhere near her head, which remained clear.

  Stephen King

  Heart, Hatred, Hot

  Stephen King (2014). “Big Driver”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• As adult women, we're better able to protect ourselves emotionally. We understand we don't need to spend time with people who don't make us feel good. We recognise that some people have bad energy and we know we don't want that in our lives. Instead, we choose to spend time with people who love us and treat us well and make us happy. There's no doubt that shows on your face.

  Deborra-Lee Furness

  Women, People, Feel Good

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