“New Rule: I don't give two fingleberries and a McShit-all that Dumbledore is gay. I never wanted to know who Dumbledore was in the first place. Let alone his sexuality. What concerns me is adults who read 800-page books about magic schoolboys... and then try to talk to me about it. If I had the slightest interest in homosexuals with powers, I'd be a Republican.” IfsKnowsGivingTryingFirstsTwoBookWantedInterestMagicRepublicanGayPagesAdultsConcernSexualityHomosexualTalk To Me Author:Bill Maher
“People who concern themselves with the rights of other adults who engage in consensual acts involving sex, love, and/or eating croissants together are damaged and in pain.” PeoplePainTogetherSexRightsEatingAdultsConcernInvolvingSex LoveCroissants Author:Rob Delaney
“Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spontaneous, everyday events--the mailman at the door with a package to open...all of which need adult interpretation. They are real events of interest and concern to babies and young children....By contrast, infant education is artificial and out of context.” KnowsNeedsChildrenRealYoungParentInterestEducationDoorsEventsBabyAdultsConcernEverydayVarietyInterpretationContrastArtificialInteractionFormalSpontaneousInfantPackagesYoung ChildrenOf ContextMailman Author:Sandra Scarr
“Historians of the future will find it incredible that we mutilated babies by cutting off the end of their penises in the name of medicine. There are now serious concerns this routine procedure may actually deprive adult men of a vital part of their sexual sensitivity.” MenMayEndsNamesCuttingSeriousBabyAdultsConcernMedicineIncrediblesRoutineHistorianSensitivityProceduresCutting Off Author:Dean Edell
“Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.” MenFeelsChildrenBeautifulGenerationsYouthFlowerAdultsConcernRidiculousTendernessBachelors Book:Emerson's Essays: Top Essays Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays
“The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.” IfsChildrenMatterSpeakCommunityMemoriesExistenceClassDoorsMiddleAdultsConcernMiddle ClassChicagoPotatoesStarvingPoignantNiceties Author:Paul Samuelson
“Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.” WorldChildrenHas BeensIdeasSelfLostSocialChildhoodThis WorldExpressionReturnAdultsConcernGardenConnectionsUnitySettingKingdomsSettingsInnocenceParadiseYearningImaginaryExploringDivorcedProjectionExcludedCarelessness Author:Loretta Lux
“I sometimes find that my family's emphasis on stories, characters, and art that appeals directly to children rather than over their heads to adults is not fully appreciated by parents who may have more narrowly adult concerns and agendas.” MayChildrenArtSometimesCharacterStoriesParentAdultsConcernMy FamilyAppealsAgendasEmphasisAppreciated Author:Mike Berenstain