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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.”

May Children Facts Grows Process Simple Growing Up Adults Bounds Inferiors Forgiven Linked Incentives

Author:Philip Larkin

“Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.”

Children Literature Clothes Adults Designer Worn Designer Clothes

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.”

Inspirational Children Has Beens Term Company Issues Adults Mere

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.”

Children Order Adults Treats Deny Punishment Height Absurdity Consolation Crime And Punishment Culprit

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.”

Thinking Children Today Cases Audience Too Much Danger Television News Adults Honey Cartoon

Author:Jerry Lewis

“I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!”

Children Real Facts Hate Girl Adults I Hate Freak Friday That Girl Freaky Happy Friday

Author:Lindsay Lohan

“Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.”

“Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?”

Children Adults Our Children Killing Entertainment Entertaining

Author:Marilyn Manson

“What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.”

Children Today Rooms Effects Missing Adults Our Children Dialogue Factors Our Society Autism Gorillas Children With Autism

Author:Jenny McCarthy

“The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.”

Children Problem Today Grows Growing Up Depends Tomorrow Solutions Adults Our Children

Author:Margaret Mead

“I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.”

Thinking Heart Children Adults Convince

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.”

Way Children Stills Today Understanding Teach Technology Modern Adults Modern Technology

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors of the adult world. They know very early on that the world is sometimes a very dark, difficult and complex place, and the literature they read must reflect that. Otherwise we're just entertaining them to pass the time.”

Knows World Want Children Sometimes Problem Literature Difficult Dark Horror Adults Presses Complexes Entertaining Buttons

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.”

Source: America

“It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation.”

Children Important Situation Adults Sake

Author:Joe Nichols

“What is an adult? A child blown up by age.”

Children Age Time Adults Birthday Adulthood

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.”

“The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.”

Children Laughing Adults Average

Author:Martha Beck

“Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.”

Feels Children Young Responsibility Adults Assuming

Author:Martha Beck

“My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.”

Children Father Parent Lines Saws Streets New York Adults Standing Bread Neighborhood Begging Brooklyn Great Depression 1930s Brooklyn New York

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.”

People Children Helping Home Left Revolution Adults Raises Multiple Small Child Industrial Revolution

Author:Martha Beck

“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

“One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.”

Love Feels Children Return Adults Assuming

Book:A Collection of Essays

Source: A Collection of Essays

“Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.”

Children Reason Eye Faces Time Humorous Adults Parenting Adulthood Ugliness

Book:A Collection of Essays

Source: A Collection of Essays

“Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.”

Thinking Knows Children Sometimes Young Loses Break Laughing Four Baby Adults Average Young Children Toddler

Author:Joel Osteen

“Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.”

“Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.”

Want Children Teach Adults Raises

Author:Dennis Prager

“Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.”

Children Book Hands Three Adults Phones Narrative Massive Delicate Costumes Clue Phone Calls Containing Unchanging Snape

Author:Alan Rickman

“'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.”

“A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.”

Children Speak Half Adults

Author:Zoe Saldana

“Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.”

Children Adults Stability Constancy

Author:Dan Savage

“If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.”

Ifs Children Wanted Life Is Purpose Dies Grows Secret Growing Up My Friends Adults Critical Vulnerable Frank

Author:Maurice Sendak

“To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.”

Knows Believe May Children Hard Used Lying Adults Tales Things To Do Hard Things

Author:Maurice Sendak

“In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.”

Needs Children Adults Our Children Caring Saved Tales Fairy Fairy Tale

Author:Donna Shalala

“Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving.”

Ifs World Giving Believe Children Helping Dies Poverty Serious Amount Adults Increase Aids Around The World Decent Good Life Decent Life Living The Good Life

Author:Peter Singer

“A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.”

Children Age Realizing Family Adults Maturity Adulthood

Author:Thomas Szasz

“Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.”

Ifs Children Principles Stage Adults Tactics

Book:The second sin

Source: The second sin

“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”

Children Wisdom Funny Happiness Conditions Adults Imaginary Valentine Inner Happiness Funny Valentines Day Funny Valentine Funny Valentines Day Card Happiness Now Cute Funny Valentines Day

Author:Thomas Szasz

“As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.”

Children Huge Adults Shock Hideous Ghastly

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.”

World Children Kids Born Adults Curiosity Curious

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.”

Inspirational Children Values Marriage Human Nature Produce Adults Parenting Maturity Parenthood Offspring Funny Marriage Being A Kid

Author:Peter De Vries

“It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.”

Writing Children Literature Cases Adults Criticism Critics Mature Publishing

Author:Alice Walker

“When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.”

Children Book Stories Hands Losing Adults Absolutes Dramatic Chocolate Factories Favourite Charlie Colourful Losing Myself Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

Author:David Walliams

“Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.”

Ifs Knows Should Children Book Literature Poor Reader Adults Relation Children's Books

Author:David Walliams

“Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes.”

People Kind May Children Eating Adults Extremes Tendencies Enjoyed Cheese Dishes Sandwiches Pizza Pasta Bland Fries French Fries Macaroni Macaroni And Cheese Grilled Cheese Cheese Sandwiches

Author:Andrew Weil

“We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.”

Children Adults Expected

Author:Romola Garai

“I think that children that are acting are always pretty savvy anyway because you're conducting yourself around adults a lot of the time, aren't you? But there is this worry now that children just want to be famous.”

Thinking Want Children Acting Worry Adults Conducting Savvy

Author:Ashley Jensen

“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”

Ifs Children I Can Seems Happens Morning Adults Get Up Warning Foreign Travel

Book:Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions

Source: Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions

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