“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.” YearsBelieveBookCountryKidsReadingMillionsHeardSourceReaderComputerAdultsEntertainmentDrawingAlternativesBeachFrighteningSparesAmusementSpare Time Author:Tim Lebbon
“Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art, but it is art. They'll use their imaginations, make drama, make up characters, make pictures in the sand, they'll make up songs that no one's ever heard before. All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.” ThinkingLittlesArtCharacterUseKidsSchoolSongImaginationCreativeHeardStupidDramaAdultsBunchBeachSandLittle Kid Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie
“I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.” PeopleKindLittlesBitsResponsibilityHeardLike YouBecomingLittle BitAdultsResponsibleBillsAdulthoodScrewsEarly 20sBecoming An Adult Author:Dan Byrd
“You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of us. They should be neither seen nor heard. And no one must make another one.” ShouldWellsChildrenCharacterHeardTerribleAdultsDrawingDisguiseGrotesque Author:Gore Vidal
“I genuinely was just such a fan of the books. When I heard that this was on the cards, I've got to do this; I've got to get involved with this. I'm such a Philip Pullman fan and actually his philosophies, morals and the way he looks at the world. He does what he does brilliantly as a writer. He writes children's stories with major adult themes and major ideas about making the right choices.” WorldWayWritingLooksChildrenDoeBookIdeasPhilosophyStoriesChoicesMoralHeardFansInvolvedMajorsAdultsCardsThemeGet InvolvedPhilipRight Choices Author:Daniel Craig
“I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it.” IfsI CanCan DoAcceptingHeardExpressionAdultsCall Me Author:Elvis Presley
“Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.” YearsPersonsWhiteHeardAdultsSouthernAccentsSuspiciousSouthern Accent Author:John Edgar Wideman
“When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives” TryingChildrenMadeDifferentGirlBoysHeardFlowerAdultsDecidedOur ChildrenSeekingCompromiseHatedRejectionFrightenedLaughedMistakenHollowHippieHideousBoy And GirlHippi Author:June Jordan
“The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think things out before they act. But maybe they never heard what Dr. London told me one, Freud said that for the little things in life we should react according to our reason. But for really big decisions, we should heed what our unconscious tells us.” ThinkingShouldLittlesSaidReasonBigsDecisionHeardAdultsLogicComplexesLondonExplanationUnconsciousLive ByMatureLittle ThingsThings In LifeDrsHeedBig DecisionsLittle Things In Life Book:Oliver's Story Source: Oliver's Story
“When we worship you in the form of bread... we always see you as an adult. But every year at Christmas, you reveal yourself to us as a child born in a crib. We stand in silent amazement...In silent adoration we stand before the mystery, like Mary when the shepherd came and told her what they had seen and heard: 'She kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.'” YearsHeartChildrenFormBornHeardMysteryWorshipAdultsSilentBreadMarySacramentsAdorationPonderingShepherdsAmazementWorship You Author:Chiara Lubich