“As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.” ThinkingWorldChildrenPastWorryConceptsAdultsOur TimeEngagingSubmergedWorrying About The Past Author:Chris Ware
“Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.” WorldMindChildrenPlayActionFearDarkCreativeFrontsConceptsAdultsEnormousFearfulYardsDark WorldAdult Children Author:Arthur J. Deikman
“From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure, thrills, and self-indulgence.” PeopleYearsSelfPhilosophyYoungFatherLeftGoalRealizingPleasureVirtueGenerationsCollegeIntegrityConceptsAdultsDestructionGradesFearfulHarvestFoundingIndulgenceOur Founding FathersMarxistYounger GenerationSelf IndulgenceGlorification Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“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.” ThinkingKnowsWritingLooksChildrenBookUseMightLanguageDifferencesKnow HowHonestConceptsAdultsBeing HonestLook UpDictionaryFunny ThingsIntimidatedDon't ChangeChildren's BooksChildren BookChildrens Book Author:John Boyne
“The new concept of the child as equal and the new integration of children into adult life has helped bring about a gradual but certain erosion of these boundaries that once separated the world of children from the word of adults, boundaries that allowed adults to treat children differently than they treated other adults because they understood that children are different.” WorldChildrenDifferentCertainEqualUnderstoodConceptsAdultsTreatsBoundariesTreatedIntegrationErosion Author:Marie Winn
“It’s an odd term, 'girlfriend,' particularly for grown persons. And in practice it provides an even odder concept. Generally speaking, in adults it described a woman, not a girl, who was willing to provide sex, not friendship. In fact, from what I had observed it was quite possible for one to actively dislike one’s girlfriend, although of course true hatred is reserved for marriage.” PersonsFactsGirlCoursesSexTermPracticeWillingConceptsAdultsHatredOddGirlfriendDislikeReservedNot Friends Book:Dearly Devoted Dexter Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter
“People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.” PeopleFeelsGunConceptsAdultsScaryMedicalMedical Insurance Author:William Gibson
“The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.” PeopleTryingAgeStuffMaterialsInvolvedUnderstoodConceptsAdultsCriticsSatire Author:Andy Kaufman
“No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that they exist. And his own adult future isn't real to him, either. Makes it that much easier to throw away.” PeopleFeelsYearsRealPainEasierConceptsAdultsEleven Book:We Need To Talk About Kevin Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin