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“International adoption does not begin to solve the problems of the world's orphaned children. It's truly not the answer. At the same time, it solves a problem for a few. I think it can be a brilliant solution to the problem of adults wanting a child in their lives or wanting more children in their lives and the problem of children who want parents in their lives.”

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Author:Melissa Fay Greene

“My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.”

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Author:Sarah Kay

“I urge all Texans to answer the call to serve those in need. By volunteering their time, energy or resources to helping others, adults and youngsters follow Christ's message of love and service in thought and deed. Therefore I, George W. Bush, Governor of Texas, do hereby proclaim June 10, 2000, Jesus Day in Texas and urge the appropriate recognition whereof. In official recognition whereof, I hereby affix my signature this 17th day of March, 2000.”

“I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.”

Thinking Want Book Character Stories Kids Answers Mystery Pages Adults Asking Surprise Caring Good Book Fast Paced Asking Questions

Book:The 39 Clues, Infinity Ring, and Spirit Animals Powerpack

Source: The 39 Clues, Infinity Ring, and Spirit Animals Powerpack

“Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.”

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Author:Sugata Mitra

“To go against gangs or drugs is meaningless unless this is mostly done by filling in the empties, the vacuums, and stop the neglect and harm we do as detached, mean, irresponsible adults and communities. The answer is in our hands.”

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Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.”

Life Is Answers Amount Adults Enormous

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“You dream that you want to be a monster maker when you grow up, and that's what happened. I refused to take no for an answer. I just was a very driven kid, who's now a very driven semi-adult.”

Want Dream Kids Grows Answers Growing Up Happened Adults Driven Monsters Makers

Author:Howard Berger

“I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.”

Knows Answers Christianity Adults Decided Asking Agnostic

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They expected to hear stories of broken relationships and wounded feelings. But the top reason given by young adults was that they did not get answers to their questions.”

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Author:Nancy Pearcey

“Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.”

Want Children Asks Answers Adults Scared Dare

Author:Martha Grimes

“I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.”

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Author:Sharon Stone

“Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions. When I first visited the homes of whites, I was often dumbfounded by the number and nature of questions that children asked of their parents-and their parents' unfailing willingness to answer them. In my household, questions were considered a nuisance; adults imparted information as they considered necessary.”

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Book:Long Walk To Freedom

Source: Long Walk To Freedom

“Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.”

Writing Long Kids School Realizing Answers Mystery Middle Students Taught Long Time Adults Back When Middle School

Author:Rick Riordan

“Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.”

Life Is Answers Mystery Amount Adults Deny Enormous Settling Rock N Roll Just Live

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.”

Ifs Way Mind Lying Asks Father Answers Knowing Adults Empowered Unimaginable Rudeness

Book:The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition

Source: The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition

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