“There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.” KnowsKidsGrowsParentGrowing UpGenerationsAdults Author:Richard Louv
“I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.” WorldShouldFirstsBelieveChildrenWholeI BelieveFantasyGenerationsShareTaughtNeededAdultsWhole WorldFantasy Worlds Author:Pearl S. Buck
“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
“When I began to read as an adult, I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then I started getting more up to date. When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.” BookGenerationsFashionAdultsNovelistsReviewersUp To Date Author:Hilary Mantel
“When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we but they are the germinators of future generations. Will they leave us behind as we did our parents? Consign us to neatly paved retirement villages? Trample us in the dust as they go flying out to their new galaxies? We had better tie them down, flagellate them, isolate them in the family cocoon, . . . indoctrinate them into the tribal laws and make sure they kneel before the power of the elders.” ChildrenReasonLawParentBehindsGenerationsAdultsFlyingDustTiesVillageRetirementFearfulAdolescenceGalaxyEldersFuture GenerationCocoons Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love and trust, they also need us for honest differing. It's not only over limits and rules...[but also] about what we represent in the way of culture, traditions, and values. We owe it to our children to let them know what we believe, and if they differ with us, we owe it to them to be honest adversaries, for it is through this honest confrontation that children can grow into adults who have a firm sense of their place in the sequence of the generations.” IfsKnowsWayNeedsBelieveChildrenValuesCultureGrowsGenerationsHonestLimitsAdultsTraditionOur ChildrenPainfulBeing HonestFirmParadoxSequenceAdversariesConfrontationLove And Trust Author:Fred Rogers
“Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.” ShouldChildrenWisdomPoliticsLeadershipJusticeFamilyClassGenerationsHuman NaturePolicyEthicsAdultsHuman RightsSocial MediaTreatedIdeologyPrivacyFree SpeechConsentCivilityPublic Life Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“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
“If you throw the baby away, that's garbage. But no, the heart's precious. You could get something, you could save a life. Well, you just threw away a baby but the heart's valuable. That's the horror and the terror and the hypocrisy that nobody can understand. We base communities on the idea of protecting children based on the sacrifice of adults. Adults work and die so that their next generation would grow and prosper.” IfsWellsHeartChildrenIdeasDiesNextGrowsCommunityGenerationsSacrificeBabyHorrorAdultsTerrorValuableHypocrisyGarbageNext GenerationSave A LifeProtecting Children Author:Greg Gutfeld
“The children are our future. And that is why, ultimately, we're screwed unless we do something about it. If you haven't noticed, the children who are our future are good-looking, but they aren't all that bright. As dense as they might be, they will eventually notice that adults have spent all the money, spread disease, and turned the planet into a smoky, filthy ball of death. We're raising an entire generation of dumb, pissed-off kids who know where the handguns are kept. This is not a good recipe for a happy future.” IfsKnowsChildrenMightKidsGenerationsHavensPlanetsFutureDiseaseAdultsBallsSpreadDumbOur FutureRecipesLooking GoodDenseFilthyPissed OffHandguns Author:Scott Adams
“I think that because of YouTube, because of MySpace, because of the digital domain that we have on the Internet, the younger generation is much more open to information. I think it's so much easier for them to gain information and trade information, and they have become more aware. In some cases, more aware than their own parents and adults, as to what's going on in the world. I find that really intriguing and interesting, and I think there is a brewing of a whole new generation of activists coming.” ThinkingWorldWholeParentInterestingCasesGenerationsInformationInternetEasierAdultsGainsTradeDigitalActivistDomainYoutubeIntriguingNew GenerationYounger GenerationBrewing Author:Serj Tankian
“I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys. I always wanted to be around adults when I was young.” YearsWantedYoungGuyFoundGenerationsAdultsMy GenerationOlder GuysCool Guy Author:Stephen Dorff
“In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.” TryingBehindsLeaderGenerationsInvolvedAdultsConnectionsExposedEmpoweredMy GenerationLet Down Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. I was a very public failure.” KnowsFeltGoneFocusGenerationsMonthsAdultsEntrepreneurPrevious Generations Author:Steve Jobs
“Albert [Brooks] was rare in that he could make adults laugh. He was a prodigy. At age 15 and 16, he could make my dad laugh uncontrollably. And whenever we had parties, some of the funniest people of my generation - whether it was Billy Crystal or Robin Williams or John Belushi - would be doing shtick.” PeopleWould BeAgePartyLaughingGenerationsDadAdultsMy DadCrystalsMy GenerationBrooksRobinsProdigies Author:Rob Reiner
“After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate the self-reliance and self-discipline we must possess as competent adults surrounded by the fruits of our pharmacological-technological age.” SelfAgeGenerationsDangerousDisciplineDrugAdultsFruitProtectionMedicalSelf DisciplineTechnologicalSelf RelianceRelianceCompetentIllusoryDangerous DrugsTutelage Book:Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market Source: Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market
“The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.” PeopleKindCertainInterestingGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsOne ThingBecomingAdultsInteresting ThingsOur GenerationBecoming An Adult Author:Paul McCartney
“Christian adults need to think about talking to our own children as a form of cross-cultural missions. Cultural change happens so quickly that teens are exposed to ideas and worldviews very different from those of previous generations.” ThinkingNeedsChildrenIdeasDifferentHappensChristianFormTalkingGenerationsAdultsCrossesMissionsExposedTeensWorldviewPrevious GenerationsCultural Change Author:Nancy Pearcey
“What we need now is the greatest generation of young adults in the history of the Church. We need your whole heart and soul. In other words, it's time to raise the bar not only for missionaries but also for returned missionaries and for your entire generation.” NeedsHeartSoulWholeYoungChurchGenerationsAdultsRaisesYoung AdultBarsHeart And SoulRaising The BarGreatest Generation Author:M. Russell Ballard
“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?” WorldChildrenCountryKidsLeftSexGrowsCitiesKnowingGenerationsAdultsSlaverySlaveNosesVillageNot KnowingShockingAnother WorldAnother LifeTraffickingKidnappedNepalCities In The WorldShocking Things Author:Gillian Anderson
“When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then I started getting more up to date.” FirstsBigsGenerationsAdultsEnthusiasmNovelistsUp To Date Author:Hilary Mantel
“It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.” WantNextGenerationsChangedAdultsNext GenerationGlowing Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having loved something more than yourself.” ChildrenDifferentSelfTodayYoungCoursesWatchesGenerationsDyingLonelinessExpressionHorrorAdultsBraveDivorceEducatedIndividualismInfidelityIndulgenceSelf ExpressionProminentSelf IndulgenceImpassionedSolipsismAnomie Author:David Foster Wallace
“There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.” WorldLooksChildrenTwoImportantIdeasRealSidesLinesGenerationsRocksWallAdultsBuiltMereSevenBoundariesClimbsOver ItGatesGeometryAmbiguous Book:The Dispossessed Source: The Dispossessed
“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.” KnowsWorldYearsBelieveRealCountryNextAsksNumbersTalkingDoubtGenerationsWorstStudentsCollegeCitizensPeriodsMembersAdultsAngelFaultsSpendingDefenseCategoriesAlliesCollege StudentsDefense Spending Author:Aaron Sorkin