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“It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove ever after to get their attention.”

Years Firsts Children Hard Attention Adults Ever After Skip

Book:House of Blues

Source: House of Blues

“I want to be both pathetic and admirable, I want to be at the same time a child and an adult. Thereby I gamble, I take a risk: for it is always possible that the other will simply ask no question whatever about these unaccustomed glasses; that the other will see, in the fact, no sign.”

Want Children Facts Asks Risk Adults Glasses Pathetic Gamble Admirable

Book:A lover's discourse: fragments

Source: A lover's discourse: fragments

“When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.”

Writing Children Book Young Influence Childhood Adults Our Children Young Adult

Author:O.R. Melling

“I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, "Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice."”

Thinking Children Said Ideas Used Choices Adults Scared Abandoned Only Child

Author:Demi Moore

World Children Doe Two Growing Up Growing Adults Demon Trapped Save The World Prom

Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar

“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.”

“When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.”

People Feels Wells Children Enough Feelings Reality Emotion Seeing Adults Complicated Upset Hiding Layers True Feelings Subterfuge Hiding Things

Author:Wallace Shawn

“Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.”

Thinking Children Film Understanding Adults Performances Treated Naive Pretense

Author:Wallace Shawn

“Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.”

Children Actors Stars Adults Considering Cgi Hassle

Author:Mara Wilson

“The creative adult is the child who has survived.”

Children Imagination Creativity Creative Adults Advertising Adulthood Survived Be Creative Creativeness Grown Children

Book:No Time to Spare: Thinking about what Matters

Source: No Time to Spare: Thinking about what Matters

“When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves and is committed to them, its very unlikely they will grow up to be productive citizens of the world.”

Knows World Children Three Grows Growing Up Citizens Adults Committed Meals Productive Squares Unlikely

Author:Stephanie March

“I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant and got me through, as an adult those became my defects of character. Those became my shortcomings, control and all that kind of stuff... and that's my responsibility. I was a blameless child in what happened in the home; I take responsibility for my behaviors as an adult.”

“I get very concerned when we start hearing people who want to convert this country into a safe place for children. I am adult. I want available what I need to see.”

People Want Needs Children Country Safe Adults Concerned Available Hearing Safe Places

Author:Judith Krug

“I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.”

Knows Children Different Hate Left Natural Environment Listening Adults Abuse Prejudice Safety Tolerance Piano Nonsense Devices Traits Riding Bike Norm Gang Amused Natural Environment Armchairs

Author:Josh Lieb

“Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.”

Way Trying Children Different Hard Please Adults Manage Different Ways Hood Robins Robin Hood Trying To Please Everyone

Author:Richard Armitage

“It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.It weepsfor the black people who think like white people.It weepsfor the Indians who think like settlers.It weepsfor the children who think like adults.It weepsfor the free who think like prisoners.Most of all, it weepsfor the cowgirls who think like cowboys.”

People Ifs Thinking Children Doe Has Beens Soul Black White Magic Poet Adults Forgotten Bones Prisoner Black People Decline Continents Cowboy Weeping Buffalo Settlers Cowgirls

Author:Tom Robbins

“I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!”

Thinking Looks Children Use Fighting Language Teach Adults Solve Bites Disputes

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.”

World Feels Children Littles Character Process Greater Childhood Intellectual Models Conscious Adults Bigger Familiar Surroundings Memories Dreams Reflections Miniatures

Author:Carl Jung

“Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active gay child, my complaint against the current attitudes is that they work mightily to silence the voices of children first and secondarily ignore what adults have to say who have been through these situations. One size fits all is never the way to handle any situation with a human dimension. Many, many children-and I was one of them-are desperate to establish some sort of sexual relation with an older and even adult figure.”

“I had seen the ballet of Swan Lake as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.”

Years Firsts Children Evil Saws Grace Violence Pure Adults Threat Productions Significant Lakes Ballet Swans Backdrop Juxtaposition Pure Evil Swan Lake

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.”

Knows Children Book Literature Differences Adults Sunday Afternoon Rainy Sunday Afternoons Rainy Sunday

Author:Mark Haddon

“The story of Mirror Mirror is in many ways a story about evolution. Its about the evolution of a child into an adult. Its about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. Its about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.”

Way Children Littles Reason Stories Light Age Darkness Middle Rocks Evolution Adults Mirrors Middle Ages Dwarves Age Of Reason

Author:Gregory Maguire

“Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.”

May Children Has Beens Difficult Century Adults Pregnant Nourishment Pregnant Women

Author:Robert Fogel

“The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.”

Needs Children Important Desire Adults

Author:Tim Walberg

“When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare physiological facts; they should be told whatever they wish to know. There should be no attempt to represent adults as more virtuous than they are, or sex as occurring only in marriage. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them.”

Source: Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage

“From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.”

Knows Needs Giving Children Young Order Childhood Special Masters Perspective Periods Adults Breathing Protected Immaturity

Author:Alison Gopnik

“We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the Constitution forbade the establishment of a State church because they were opposed to religion. They knew that the introduction of religious differences into American life would undermine the democratic foundations of this country. What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools.”

“I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults. And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic... And those were all things I hated.”

Writing Years Children Book Stories Young Felt Stupid Please Adults Comic Hated Comic Book Publishers Young Children

Author:Stan Lee

“I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve the problems for them. They could use their own ingenuity, use their own talents to solve whatever the issue was. And I like that still. I think that children want to read about heroic children. They don't want to read about children that have to be saved all the time.”

Thinking Want Needs Children Stills Book Use Problem Kids Reading Issues Talent Adults Solve Saved Heroic Reading Books Ingenuity

Author:John Boyne

“I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write, they would be the kind of stories you would write in an adult novel only they just happen to feature a child at the center of them.”

People Thinking Should Writing Kind Children Important Book Stories Happens Would Be Young Novel Serious Adults Should Have Features Theme

Author:John Boyne

“With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and that needs to be first-person. In the children's books, I feel I need some distance. I don't want to be the nine-year-old at the center of the story. I need to have some type of narrative voice.”

“I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to look up in the dictionary. The books are shorter, but there's just not that much difference other than that to be honest. And the funny thing is, I have adult writer friends [to whom I would say], "Would you think of writing a children's book?" and they go, "No, God, I wouldn't know how." They're quite intimidated by the concept of it. And when I say to children's books writers, would they write an adult book, they say no because they think they're too good for it.”

“Children's book writers tend to feel quite superior, and adult writers tend to feel they wouldn't know how to write a children's book - which might surprise you because I think a lot of people think it's the other way around.”

People Thinking Knows Way Feels Writing Children Book Might Know How Adults Surprise Superiors Children's Books

Author:John Boyne

“I have known many people who were seduced as children by same-sex partners and then spent their teen years being gay, and then found their way back to heterosexuality as adults.”

People Way Years Children Found Sex Known Gay Adults Partners Being Gay Heterosexuality

Author:Nell Zink

“A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.”

Inspirational Children Company Boys Atheism Son Adults Intelligent Average Teens Teenage Thank You

Author:John B. S. Haldane

“It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed.”

Way Children Country Earth Changed Terrible Adults Leaving Treated Usa Obese

Author:Richard Simmons

“But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults order children to smile in the photos, involve them in the lie, so we smile, we feign happiness.”

Children Life Is Lying Order Our Lives Evidence Adults Claims Unbearable Snaps

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?”

Want Children Grows Growing Up Adults Our Children Your Children

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can't get twelve-cent medicine to dying poor children.”

Source: The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

“My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.”

Knows Children Bigs Together Mother Adults Cousin Hong Kong Only Child Big Families Shanghai

Author:Wong Kar-wai

“Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers.”

Children Stills Adults Merchants Cirque Du Soleil

Author:Guy Laliberte

“The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on”

Source: Hilarity Ensues

“A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the childs becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.”

Way Children Might Young Chance Becoming Adults Young Adult Definitions Secure Behave Fathering

Author:Clyde Edgerton

“I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.”

Thinking Children Audience Effects Adults Primaries

Author:Marcus du Sautoy

“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.”

Years Children Facts Shows Seems School Enjoy Answers Groups Materials Findings Capable Adults Absence Experiments Right Answers Supervision Answering Questions

Author:Sugata Mitra

“The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.”

Children Race Healthy Adults Innocent Imaginative Unhealthy Stale

Book:My heart's in the Highlands

Source: My heart's in the Highlands

“Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.”

Children Acting Adults Comic Devices

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.”

“Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall.”

Knows Way Children Moments Parent Memories Deals Car Adults Seats Grades Comment Pants Recalls Raising Children Spurs Spur Of The Moment Adult Children

Author:Anna Quindlen

“In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness.... This would be so even if there were a possibility for perfect babies and perfect mothers.”

Ifs Humans Children Stills Would Be Mother Perfect Possibility Baby Adults Helpless Still Life

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

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