Adults Quotes - Page 37

• As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty, and obtain the means to participate fully in their communities.

  Koichiro Matsuura

  Children, Educational, Mean

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• Social thinking skills must be directly taught to children and adults with ASD. Doing so opens doors of social understandings in all areas of life.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Thinking, Doors

  Temple Grandin (2008). “The Way I See it: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's”, p.157, Future Horizons

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• We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

  Jaron Lanier

  Children, Kids, Technology

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• There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.

  Mike Penner

  Sports, Baseball, League

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• I want to assure you that regardless of your circumstances, age, or sex, you can indeed start over, re-arousing from within yourself those earlier, more innocent expectations, feelings and beliefs. It is much better if you can imagine this endeavor more in the light of children's play, in fact, rather than think of it as a deadly serious adult pursuit.

  Seth Roberts

  Sex, Children, Thinking

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• It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

  Xavier Becerra

  Drinking, Kids, Decision

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• I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.

  Barney Frank

  Believe, Marijuana, Government

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• I'm sure that we can handle this situation maturely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr... Poopy Pants?

  Leslie Nielsen

  Pants, Aging, Responsible

  "Fictional character: Lt. Frank Drebin". "The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear", www.imdb.com. June 28, 1991.

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• Adults are just outdated children.

  Dr. Seuss

  Children, Silly, Sentimental

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• A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.

  Erica Jong

  Mother, Baby, Jobs

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.43, Penguin

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• Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem. Kids who believe this about grownups aren't likely to argue about bedtime.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Baby, Children

  P. J. O'Rourke (1987). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, Pocket

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• Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.260, Library of America

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• And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking. A large percentage of them are squinty-eyed and bald and their faces are all mushed toegther, kind of like Renee Zellweger pushed up against a glass window.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Parenting, Motherhood

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me Deluxe”, p.19, Penguin

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• When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

  Science, Discovery, Mind

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”

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• I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.

  Benjamin Rush

  Christian, Education, Sex

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

  Brian Aldiss

  Love, Fear, Children

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• I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisational thing. There are ways to do it where you're not on a movie set with 60 adults, which I loved at the time, but as a parent, I don't know that I'd be dying to put her in that spot.

  Helen Hunt

  Daughter, Mother, Kids

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• Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrongs. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Fall, Drinking

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• Evolution is a fairy tale for adults

  Paul Lemoine

  Fairy Tale, Evolution, Tales

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• Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

  Murray Banks

  Sex, Adultery, Infancy

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• An age where you feel like you could love anyone, where you put everything on the line for the smallest of things. Eighteen. Adults say that it's an age where we laugh if a leaf tumbles by. But back then, we were more serious than any adult, more intense, and had our strength tested. 1997. That was how our eighteen was beginning.

  Ryu Si-won

  Drama, Laughing, Age

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• When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Children, Philosophical, Thinking

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• At that time in my life I implicitly understood something that adults seem to have forgotton: that we do have control over our own bodies. I forgot that many times as an adult, too; but sometimes when I was in the flow and running with complete confidence, I would remember that feeling and know that I could will my body to do my bidding. On those days I was unbeatable.

  Lorraine Moller

  Running, Feelings, Body

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• The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.

  Patch Adams

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Fun

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• Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

  Isaac Asimov

  Children, Envy, Bird

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