Best adults & country Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay. But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.”

Want Mean Children Doe Country America Republican Adults Okay Wings Denial Being The Best Loved Ones Right Wing Children Love Love Means

Author:Al Franken

“The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell established this award to encourage other writers--particularly new authors--to focus on historical fiction. He hoped in this way to increase the interest of young readers in the historical background that has helped to shape their country and their world.”

World Way Years Children Book Country Young Interest Fiction Focus Reader Shapes Adults Increase Historical Young Adult Backgrounds Awards Historical Fiction Annuals Dell Previous Years

Author:Scott O'Dell

“Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.”

Country Problem America Three Huge Adults Our Country Illiterate Illiteracy

Author:Roseanne Barr

“I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.”

Thinking World Needs Persons Country Growth Realizing Industry Adults Definitions Educated Changing The World Continuing Educated Person

Author:Peter Drucker

“Let me tell you something: for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.”

Feels Firsts Country Proud Adults First Time Let Me Comeback Proud To Be An American

Author:Michelle Obama

“Each country makes a different decision on adult pornography, but the good news is that even governments you hate, hate child pornography.”

Children Different Country Government Hate Decision News Adults Good News Pornography

Author:Eric Schmidt

“In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.”

Country Adults Legislation Pornography

Author:Eric Schmidt

“I tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative, vast source of spare-time amusement and entertainment. I recently heard a frightening statistic: there are less than one million true readers in this country (those who read every day instead of one book per year on a beach). Terrifying.”

Years Believe Book Country Kids Reading Millions Heard Source Reader Computer Adults Entertainment Drawing Alternatives Beach Frightening Spares Amusement Spare Time

Author:Tim Lebbon

“Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.”

“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

“For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country ... not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change,” she said. “I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment.”

“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.”

“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

“I dont want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just dont know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.”

Knows Want Needs Country Realizing Cry Adults Police Injustice Privilege Bully Police Brutality Brutality Victimization

Author:Ariel Pink

“Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country to another with amazing speed. Sometimes they are four years old, an hour later they are twenty-five. They don't really fit anywhere. There's a yearning for place, a search for solid ground.”

Years Children Country Sometimes Home Hours Five Four Land Fit Adults Twenties Speed Native Four Years Yearning Traveler Jet Twenty Five Native Land

Book:Reviving Ophelia

Source: Reviving Ophelia

“We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians. We must realize the need for adult education and for job retraining programs that will emphasize a changing society in which automation plays the key role. We intend to use the tools of education to help raise our people to an unprecedented level of excellence and self respect through their own efforts.”

Source: By any means necessary

“While the Western society gives total freedom to the individuals to do whatever "consenting adults" please, which admittedly is better than having the government poke into your private life and your bedroom, like in Islamic countries, there are no moral compasses to tell what is right from wrong. The very notion of right and wrong has come under question. The motto is "if it feels good do it". Hedonism rules!”

Ifs Giving Feels Country Government Individual Moral Please Adults Western Notion Feel Good Islamic Bedroom Motto Compass Private Life Poke Hedonism Moral Compass Western Society

Author:Ali Sina

“While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.”

Thinking Country Cities Quiet Adults Boring Best Place

Author:Jacob Hashimoto

“I love Spain. It's my favorite country that I've been to and I've traveled quite a bit. I've been really fortunate as an adult to have been to a lot of interesting places like Egypt and China.”

Has Beens Country Bits Interesting Adults My Favorite China Fortunate Traveled Egypt Spain Interesting Places

Author:Bitsie Tulloch

“I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it was a referendum on boys kissing... When homophobia trumps terrorism in America, wow. This country needs to get laid.”

Needs Country America Faces Boys Trump Protect Kissing Adults Election Terrorism Discussion Wow Homophobia Getting Laid Referendums

Author:Bill Maher

“I tend to not use the word "socialist," because even though more young adults in the United States in a poll say they support socialism than do capitalism, the word socialism doesn't have a lot of meaning in this country.”

Country States Use Young United United States Support Adults Capitalism Young Adult Socialism Socialist Polls

Author:Cynthia Kauffman

“That's the biggest problem existing in this country! People are always mixing up the word free and freedom. Free is something you get for nothin.' Freedom is a responsibility. We think freedom means do nothing, don't be responsible for your actions.... I think its time for adult Americans to be responsible for themselves, to take back the responsibility of being a free nation.”

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Author:Aaron Tippin

“Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid style in American politics. He is the un-Edwards and un-Huckabee - an adult aiming to reform the real world rather than an adolescent fantasizing mock-heroic 'fights' against fictitious villains in a left-wing cartoon version of this country.”

“My interest, perhaps, came out of the trauma of being a young immigrant in this country and constantly feeling my "resident alien" status. I remember trying to learn English on kindergarten playgrounds. I tried hard to be a convincing American but it was a losing battle. I was labeled weird and that tag never left me - all through high school, I was always the oddball. It was not always an easy path - I just had to tell myself that one day, being on the periphery would become an asset (and I think it finally has, as a creative adult).”

“As an anti-hunger advocate and longtime member of the Entertainment Council for Feeding America, I have become more and more aware of the issues surrounding hunger in our country, a country where 68% of adults above the age of 20 are overweight or obese. What a staggering thought, when 1 in 6 adults don't have enough food to eat on a regular basis. Good, healthy meal choices play a huge part of controlling weight and other health related issues.”

“There are so many shocking things. Is it more shocking that there are children sold into slavery in every city in the world and right under our noses or that there are villages in Nepal where there are no children left because they have all been kidnapped for sex trafficking, or that there are generations of slaves in some countries where indentured slavery passes from generation to generation and that kids grow into adults not knowing that another world - another life - exists?”

“Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.”

Years Children Country Age Past Mother Fall Growth Born Five Violence Risk Crime Disease Percent Adults Increase Primaries Wages Literacy Spurs Decrease Likelihood Later In Life Primary Education

Author:Shakira

“For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.”

Source: Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words

“The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.”

Way Country Running Able Huge Adults Trade Bombs Disputes

Author:Eric Schmidt

“Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”

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Author:Lily Tomlin

“Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of its adult members is in the shower. No one knows why.”

Ifs Knows Ideas Country Kids Accepting Members Adults Harm Showers

Book:I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake

“Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.”

Knows Children Littles Real Country Reading Imagination Adults Newspapers Harry Potter Potters

Author:Lorrie Moore

“We lead the world in only 3 categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. Now none of this is the fault of 20 year old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world I don't know what the f...k you're talking about.”

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