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“I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.”

Children Animal Adults Ease Children Love

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O”

Source: The Worst Person In the World: And 202 Strong Contenders

“I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.”

Ifs Trying Humans Littles Character Stories Animal Secret Events Greatness Adults Warm Satire Historic Foibles

Book:Walt Disney: Conversations

Source: Walt Disney: Conversations

“human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.”

Ifs Humans Wells Children Remember Animal Adults Communicate Granted Human Animal

Book:Alice Walker Banned

Source: Alice Walker Banned

“Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.”

Way Doe Hurt Animal Environment Baby Research Adults Damage Barren

Author:Temple Grandin

“You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.”

“There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous animals in the world have talked, but they talked real talk and they weren't called silly names like Doody and Mooloo. They were called names like The Cheshire Cat and they asked sensible questions like "Did you say pig, or fig?")”

World Children Book Real Literature Names Animal Talking Adults Cat Silly Sensible Pigs Figs Whimsical Condescending Children's Literature Real Talk

Author:Katharine Sergeant Angell White

“In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults”

Feels Children Animal Adults

Book:The life I really lived: a novel

Source: The life I really lived: a novel

“In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?”

Feels Children Feelings Animal Share Creatures Adults Cat Ecstasy Puppy Caress Grownups

Book:The life I really lived: a novel

Source: The life I really lived: a novel

“The magical approach is indeed the natural approach to life's experience. It is the adult version of childhood knowledge, the human version of the animals' knowledge, the conscious version of 'unconscious' comprehension.”

Humans Natural Animal Magic Childhood Approach Conscious Adults Versions Unconscious Comprehension

Author:Seth

“As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.”

People Knows Writing Children Animal Know How Strange Grew Grew Up Pages Adults Bottom Drawing Chickens Farms Handwriting Scribbles

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.”

World Humans Human Beings Animal Pieces Battle Devil Adults Cruelty Trails Prey Casual Animal World Piglet Lioness Crocs Dingoes Tasmanian Devils

Book:Steve & Me

Source: Steve & Me

“Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really inquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right.”

People Thinking World Children Ends Certain Turns Bits Animal Baby Easier Understood Adults Clean Lips Milk Feeding Cleaning Catching Granny

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around the tank, mostly adults, a few accompanied by children. On the seals' tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL——IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL'S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL. So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It's not the seals I hate——it's the audience's enjoyment of them that bothers me.”

Source: American Psycho: Picador Classic