Adults Quotes - Page 39

• The jobs are there, but, particularly for working adults, traditional education just isnt going to cut it. New ways for training that meet the real-life requirements for adults are critically important.

  Jerry Rubin

  Jobs, Real, Cutting

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• Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Life, Childhood, World

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

  Delmore Schwartz

  Morning, Children, Rose

  Delmore Schwartz, James Atlas (1978). “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories”, p.184, New Directions Publishing

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• I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness.

  Richard Branson

  Powerful, Thinking, Entrepreneurship

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Dec 07, 2012

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• Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led since 1945 in the Western world is very rare in human history. Our children are unlikely to enjoy anything so placid, and may well spend their adult years in an ugly and savage world unless we decide that who and what we are is worth defending.

  Mark Steyn

  Children, Blessing, Years

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.207, Regnery Publishing

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• I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document, you’re quite wrong. We remain as we always were, and that, alas, is one of life’s many nasty tricks.

  Steven Morrissey

  Teenage, Thinking, Doors

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• From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.

  Wayne Allard

  Would Be, Income, Gamer

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• Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect.

  August Derleth

  Children, Needs, World

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• I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.

  Chris Crutcher

  Book, Dark, Thinking

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• The sanserif only seems to be the simpler script. It is a form that was violently reduced for little children. For adults it is more difficult to read than serifed roman type, whose serifs were never meant to be ornamental.

  Jan Tschichold

  Children, Littles, Scripts

  Jan Tschichold, Robert Bringhurst, Hajo Hadeler (1991). “The form of the book: essays on the morality of good design”, Hartley & Marks Publishers

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• I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead, we could teach them important subjects such as How the Mind Works, How to Handle Finances, How to Invest Money for Financial Security, How to be a Parent, How to Create Good Relationships, and How to Create and Maintain Self-Esteem and Self-Worth. Can you imagine what a whole generation of adults would be like if they had been taught these subjects in school along with their regular curriculum?

  Louise Hay

  Children, Self Esteem, School

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• There was a real sophistication and elegance to (Batman: The Animated Series). It certainly appealed to kids but had a depth that really made it fascinating and interesting to watch for adult fans. I think visually, it was stylistically stunning.

  Jim Lee

  Real, Kids, Thinking

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• Let go of the things you don't love about your childhood, and keep the things you love. Let go of the things you don't love about your adolescent and adult years, and keep the good things. Just keep the things you love about your whole life.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Years

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. Well, that's just not going to happen.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Kids, Technology, Years

  "POLITICO Interview: Sen. Amy Klobuchar". "America's Youth" with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.

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• But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.

  Vanessa Mae

  Thinking

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• I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.

  Og Mandino

  Beach, Sweet, Memories

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope”, p.103, Bantam

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• Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.

  Margaret Mahy

  Fashion, Book, Community

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• When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in itself—a masterpiece of God.

  Carl Schmitt

  Unique, Childhood, Preparation

  Carl Schmitt, Samuel Armstrong Schmitt (2012). “Carl Schmitt: The Vision of Beauty”, p.98, Scepter Publishers

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• There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity.

  George Pataki

  Children, Home, Government

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• Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

  Maria Montessori

  Environment, Missions, Higher

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• But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Action, Calm

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• Why am I attracted to all these lying quotes all of a sudden? Here’s another one. This one by Phillip Lopate: ‘(Children know it better than adults) that in telling a lie, fidelity is everything.’

  Phillip Lopate

  Children, Lying, Fidelity

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• Puppies and kids naturally go together, but it's up to the adults to teach them how to do it the right way.

  Cesar Millan

  Kids, Together, Way

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• Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults who have contemplated parenthood and are prepared to offer love, patience, and devotion come up with enough chromosomal matter to stick together and create a child?

  Scott Simon

  Girl, Children, Boys

  "Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption". Book by Scott Simon, 2010.

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• There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Numbers, People, Brain

  "The neurons that shaped civilization". TEDIndia Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.

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