Adults Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Character, Men

  "The Quotable Bertrand Russell".

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• Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend.

  Henning Mankell

  Children, Believe, Enemy

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Oct 22, 2012

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• Perhaps the single most important point for parents to follow is the importance of giving goals to a child. And the most important goal is that of growing up to be an adult.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Children, Growing Up, Goal

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• I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know.

  Luther Campbell

  Labels, Who You Know, Care

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• No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Growing Up, Bears

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• All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Fruit, Bears

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• Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Years, Mind

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Absorbent Mind”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is not just play... it is work he must do in order to grow up.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Growing Up, Self

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• A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an adult can have a kind of mission. He can be an inspiration for the child's actions, a kind of open book wherein a child can learn how to direct his own movements. But an adult, if he is to afford 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, Inspiration, Book

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• The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Independent, Growing

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Age, Watches, Cinema

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the White House. You can't blame members of Congress for looking out for their parochial interests. It is the president's responsibility to look out for the national interest.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Responsibility, White, House

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• Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn't there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?

  Bill Crawford

  Children, Taken, Care

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• To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

  Bill Crawford

  Teaching, Kids, Quality

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• I have inquired for most of my adult life, about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent, and I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.

  Janet Reno

  Research, Might, Death Penalty

  Janet Reno during weekly Press Conference, www.justice.gov. January 20, 2000.

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• Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.

  Catherine Doherty

  Children, Heart, Giving

  "Molchanie: The Silence of God". Book by Catherine Doherty, 1982.

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• In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.

  Joichi Ito

  Today, Rest Of Your Life, Old Days

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• The marriage rate has hit an all-time low, with 1 in 5 adults over 25 having never been married. In fact, an ad firm has come up with slogans to get people on board. One slogan is: 'Marriage, satisfaction guaranteed or your money back - half of it, anyway.'

  Jimmy Little

  People, All Time Low, Boards

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