“If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.” IfsChildrenEyeDesireNationsCommunityCitiesSeeingExampleAdultsEndeavorSensibleHumaneKinderThrough The EyesEyes Of A Child Book:Childhood's Future Source: Childhood's Future
“I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.” KidsPastFunWeekExampleSummerAdultsNineCamps Author:Wavy Gravy
“Glee is only one example - there are a lot of shows, adult shows online. I just don't understand why we've decided that we want to throw everything we can out there on the Internet, I don't know how it helps us. I think being exclusive, that you can only see something on CBS, you can only see something on ABC, is a good thing.” ThinkingKnowsWantHelpingShowsKnow HowExampleInternetAdultsDecidedGood ThingsOnlineExclusiveGlee Author:Edward Allen Bernero
“...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.” ShouldMindFirstsStillsTwoIdeasPhilosophyAbleAbilitySawsImpossibleExamplePositive ThinkingAdultsTestsFunctionRateDeterminedPositive AttitudeHopelessHopelessnessImprobableKeep A Positive AttitudePositive Mind Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
“More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious conversion here is much, much higher than it is anywhere in Europe, for example.” ReligiousHalfExampleChangedHigherAdultsEuropeLifetimeRateConversion Author:Susan Jacoby
“The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35 percent for youth, they bail out the banks, public schools, there is a deep divide. We need a plan for reconstruction and redevelopment and I hope that - police are the gatekeepers but behind that gate are these problems of disparities and injustice.” NeedsFactsProblemSchoolBlackCommunityCitiesBehindsPlansExampleYouthPercentAdultsPoliceInjusticeGatesChicagoDividesUnemploymentPublic SchoolReconstructionDisparityBlack CommunityBailGatekeepers Author:Jesse Jackson
“I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems to me that growing up is governed by the will, that one can choose to become an adult, but only at given moments. These moments come along fairly infrequently -during crises in relationships, for example, or when one has been given the chance to start afresh somewhere- and one can ignore them or seize them.” BelieveHas BeensMomentsSeemsUsedGivenProcessChanceGrowing UpGrowingExampleAdultsCrisisInevitableUncontrollable Author:Nick Hornby
“it's weird how much people change. for example, when i was a kid i loved all of these things..and over time all of them just fell away, one after another, replaced by friends and IMing and cell phones and boys and clothes. it's kind of sad, if you think about it. like there's no continuity in people at all. like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult," and after that you're a totally different person. maybe even a less happy person. maybe even a worse one.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindPersonsDifferentKidsAgeYoungBoysExampleClothesAdultsYoung AdultPhonesCellsTwelveReplacedContinuityCell PhoneLike SomethingThirteenHappy PersonRupture Author:Lauren Oliver
“We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each other: when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming.” NeedsFearParentCan DoMillionsFiveSawsExampleAdultsShiningTeenagerScareTemperNeed YouAlarmsSomeone You Love Author:Tana French
“This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.” LastsChoicesEvilSocialExampleAdultsPopulationScalesSmokingMassiveQuartersEngineeringRecallsInterventionPrivate LifeExtremismTobaccoBansProhibitionCrusadesSocial EngineeringLife And ChoicesSocial Evils Author:Charles Orville Whitley