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“Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.”

“The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.”

Ifs Children Culture Growing Dying Youth Demand Adults Hatred Terror Terrorism Chains Breathing Judgement Refusal Ecological Hooked Disinterested Youth Culture

Author:Midge Decter

“The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while you are still growing into that more beneficial picture.”

Children Long Stills Play Belief Growing Adults Attraction Desirable Beneficial Children Playing

Author:Seth Roberts

“Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.”

Feels Firsts Children Turns Emotional Adults Selling Buying Apartment

Author:Anderson Cooper

“We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.”

Knows Children Doe Grows Differences Growing Up Learning Adults Aging Former Latter

Author:W. H. Auden

“Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity... The second fundamental thing is independence.”

Firsts Children Two Law Serious Development Activity Understood Adults Independent Independence Fundamentals Urges Obliged

Author:Maria Montessori

“I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.”

Children Self Stories Choices Parent Discipline Adults Self Discipline Upbringing Great Success Success Stories

Author:Amy Chua

“Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.”

“God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or the older person. In each one God sees His image and likeness. Human life is a manifestation of God and His glory.”

Humans Children Persons Doe Life Is Mother Youth Glory Adults Human Life Manifestation Abortion Infant Womb God's Love

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That's basically how we're doing it.”

Thinking Children Dream Mother Sleep Activity Daughter Adults Our Children Your Children Abandon My Daughter Going To Sleep

Author:Tina Fey

“Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal adult behavior in lower races.”

Children White Race Focus Evolution Activity Behavior Normal Racism Adults Scientist Comparison Convenient Persuasive Recapitulation

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“When we worship you in the form of bread... we always see you as an adult. But every year at Christmas, you reveal yourself to us as a child born in a crib. We stand in silent amazement...In silent adoration we stand before the mystery, like Mary when the shepherd came and told her what they had seen and heard: 'She kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.'”

Years Heart Children Form Born Heard Mystery Worship Adults Silent Bread Mary Sacraments Adoration Pondering Shepherds Amazement Worship You

Author:Chiara Lubich

“It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws are known, the door of the future will in a measure be opened; determination of the child's present status will enable us to forecast what manner of adult he will become.”

Children Problem Law Science Growth Known Psychology Doors Future Adults Determination Fundamentals Evident Forecasts Investigating

Book:The Intelligence of School Children: How Children Differ in Ability, the Use of Mental Tests in School Grading and the Proper Education of Exceptional Children

Source: The Intelligence of School Children: How Children Differ in Ability, the Use of Mental Tests in School Grading and the Proper Education of Exceptional Children

“Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?".”

Want Firsts Children Two Vision Adults First Time Our Children Your Children Memorable Awards Committees Nobel Fries

Author:Robin Williams

“We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see how child rearing patterns produce nurturing adult behaviors.”

Looks Mean Children Values Produce Conflict Behavior Adults Patterns Handle Nonviolence Nurturing Child Rearing

Author:Elise M. Boulding

“When you were a child you had dreams of becoming somebody as an adult. Have you lived up to your dreams?”

Children Dream Becoming Adults Your Dreams

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.”

Firsts Children Life Is Half Laughter Adults

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her.”

Years Kind Children Persons Remember Adults Parenthood

Author:Billy Graham

“The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.”

Children Parent Adults Our Children Stubborn Clash

Author:Robert Breault

“The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder about space and time until I was an adult. I then delved more deeply into the problem than any other adult or child would have done.”

Giving Children Done Problem Space Wonder Ordinary Adults Contrary Time And Space Space Time

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.”

“Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that violence begets even more violence.”

Ifs Way Children Persons Behinds Violence Crime Adults Committed Begets Unimaginable

Author:Gong Ji-young

“It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to ever be didactic, but if there’s something I do want to say, it’s that you can bring things around. You can make a change. Adult novels are about letting go. Children’s novels are about getting a grip.”

Ifs Want Writing Children Character Ability Novel Events Letting Go Draws Adults Resolution Making Changes Didactic

Author:Tim Wynne-Jones