Adults Quotes - Page 36

• I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.

  Anna Quindlen

  Exercise, Done, Way

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.64, Ballantine Books

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• When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able to heal the wounds of the child and the adult and begin to live the lives we've always wanted to live.

  Cheri Huber

  Children, Inspiration, Bravery

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• A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

  Sherman Alexie

  Garden, Ideas, Eden

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• I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise mixocological difference between a Slippery Nipple and a fuzzy navel.

  David Foster Wallace

  Differences, Ships, Nipples

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• There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.

  David Foster Wallace

  Frustration, Boredom, Routine

  "Ten Best Commencement Speeches: See A List, Take The Poll" by Katharine Zaleski, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2009.

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• Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude - but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

  David Foster Wallace

  Sound, May, Facts

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to hundreds of children at Halloween as an adult; from childhood assistance he received from adults, particularly after his parents divorced, to saying I challenge you to be a caring adult in someone's life ... Great times call forth great leaders.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, Halloween, Caring

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• When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

  Glen Duncan

  Kindness, Kids, People

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.281, Canongate Books

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• Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Children, Self, Expression

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• Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

  E. B. White

  Political, Dying, Principles

  "The Thud of Ideas," The New Yorker, September 23, 1950.

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• The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.

  David Ben-Gurion

  People, Scary, Maps

  "Arab Leaders Urge Peace, Israel Refuses". imemc.org. March 30, 2007.

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• When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own parents and children as well as the parents and children of others. The old are cared for, adults have jobs, children are nourished and educated. There is a means of support for all those who are disabled or find themselves alone in the world. Everyone has an appropriate role to play in the family and society. Devotion to public duty leaves no place for idleness. Scheming for ill gain is unknown. Sharing displaces selfishness and materialism.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Jobs

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• Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.

  Erma Bombeck

  Christmas, Dog, Children

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• For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.

  Eric Sevareid

  Christmas, Children, Memories

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• It is the privilege of adults to give advice. It is the privilege of youth not to listen. Both avail themselves of their privileges, and the world rocks along.

  Dominique Sutton

  Rocks, Giving, Advice

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• Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Teacher, Children

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• Most adults don't sing anymore. We have to break that, and start singing the name of the Almighty One, try to cultivate the emotions. We have to elevate our emotions to the maximum, to the limit, and that then turns into spiritual bliss.

  Dharma Mittra

  Spiritual, Yoga, Names

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• Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Self Esteem, Play, Training

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.91, Institute of GS

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• If we don't invest now in building character into children we will surely invest more tomorrow in trying to repair adults.

  Michael Josephson

  Children, Character, Trying

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• While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.

  John Wooden

  Moving, Character, Leader

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• If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Childhood, Religion

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.149, Ballantine Books

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• Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults.

  Harvey Kurtzman

  Baby, Children, Teenager

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• Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Sex, Women, Law

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• It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy?

  Koichiro Matsuura

  Education, Democracy, Tools

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• One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

  Carl Sagan

  Education, Children, Giving

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