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“Kids can make a difference by telling an adult about any bullying they see. Kids need to know that they can be helpful in a bad situation if they get help quickly and also they need to stand up for the child that's being bullied.”

Ifs Knows Needs Children Helping Kids Differences Situation Adults Making A Difference Helpful Bullying Bullied Being Bullied Bad Situations

Author:Josh Flitter

“I think it would be great if more adults were able to maintain that joyful creativity that we all experience as children.”

Ifs Thinking Children Would Be Able Creativity Adults Joyful

Author:Adam Rubin

“If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.”

Ifs Care Kids House Pay Television Adults Take Care

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“You're 25 and you're looking at adults of your parents' age and older saying, "I don't want to live that way," and this is how it happens. It evolves slowly and it's not the result of any movement. It's just young people look at the way their parents are living and if they don't like it they don't want to duplicate it.”

People Ifs Way Want Looks Happens Age Young Parent Results Movement Adults Evolve Duplicate

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I still think there is a way to take all the mistakes that we've made as adults and put a little bit of a salve on them, a little bit of a fix on them, if we just are a little smarter in what we teach our kids.”

Ifs Thinking Way Littles Made Stills Kids Bits Mistake Teach Little Bit Adults Smarter

Author:Mitch Albom

“It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I know there has to be hope. I don't necessarily feel that responsibility for adults, but I emphatically feel it for children. That's the only difference. There's no syntax difference. There's no semantics difference. There's no thematic difference.”

Ifs Knows Feels Writing Children Stories Kids Age Differences Responsibility Reader Adults Syntax Semantics Thematic

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“This is the great thing about writing for kids. Adults might not do anything if they recognized me. But if they do see me, and they're with a kid, they'll tell the kid who I am. They think they should give that to the kid. So generally that sends the kid over.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Should Writing Might Kids Adults Who I Am Great Things

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts, our news is just as contrived, and controlled as Pravda!”

Ifs Looks Facts News Adults Controlled Free Society

Author:Frank Zappa

“You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see his mother and father reading about it, and explaining it to him. Then it gets a legitimacy it otherwise would never have. Until then, his learning is limited.”

Ifs Children Mother Culture Reading Father Adults Convince Explaining Mother And Father Legitimacy

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?”

People Ifs Two Models Adults Disappear Adulthood

Author:Robert Bly

“To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over that mysterious line drawn on the ground into adulthood. If we don't do that, the adolescents are going to stay exactly where they are for the next 30 or 40 years.”

Ifs Years Helping Lying Next Lines Forget Adults Mysterious Retirement Adulthood

Author:Robert Bly

“Instilling values of faith at an early age is important. Listening them through adolescence comes more important than teaching because if you haven't instilled in them at early ages now it's time to listen and get your report card and let them find their way and then as an adult let them stand aside.”

Ifs Way Important Age Values Teaching Havens Listening Adults Cards Reports Adolescence Report Cards

Author:T. D. Jakes

“Almost 40% of all young adults are living with their parents. This is a 75-year high in America. Forty percent of young adults are living with their parents. I see stuff like this, and I think it's a good thing I didn't become a parent, because if that were happening to me, you wouldn't want to be my kid.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Kids America Young Stuff Parent Happenings Percent Adults Good Things Young Adult Forty

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“If I could've picked a birthday it would've been on Halloween. Yeah, it's always been my favorite holiday. Not because it was my birthday, but actually because, I think it was the freedom, you know? When you were a little kid, you got to go out and be an adult for a couple of hours. You got to, like, just go out with your friends and knock on peoples' doors and be nuts and pull pranks and stuff like that. You could be whoever you wanted to be, you know, I guess that was the appeal to it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Littles Kids Wanted Stuff Hours Doors Couple Adults Yeah My Favorite Appeals If I Could Holiday Nuts Be You Halloween Little Kid My Birthday Pranks

Author:Frank Iero

“There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.”

Ifs Want Matter Age Young Sports Practice Exercise Adults Weight No Matter What Height Requirements Competitors Skates Good Exercise

Author:Nancy Kerrigan

“Having pets can teach us a lot of things. For kids, they are often their first lesson in responsibility, and being responsible for the well-being of another living thing is actually great for anyone, kid or adult. It teaches empathy, consistency, and so much more - especially if that pet is a dog.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Kids Responsibility Teach Dog Lessons Empathy Adults Responsible Well Being Pet Consistency Living Things Being Responsible

Author:Cesar Millan

“I end up liking politicians, both left and right, who talk about political matters as if they are addressing a bunch of adults, as if they are capable of handling both complexity and emotional responsibility.”

Ifs Ends Matter Political Left Responsibility Emotional Politician Capable Adults Bunch Complexity Left And Right

Author:Rachel Maddow

“The reason they came up with the ratings board is that there are a lot of movies out there, and parents need some guidance. Not only for the kids, but for adults, as well. If you don't like to see a certain kind of film, there should be some rating, so that you know what you're getting into. But the present system doesn't work.”

Ifs Knows Needs Should Wells Kind Reason Kids Film Certain Parent Adults Guidance Boards Rating

Author:William H. Macy

“Something I've always said is if you think back as an adult to when you were in school, think back who your favorite teacher or your best teacher was, it was probably not somebody you liked, but they got more out of you than you thought you had.”

Ifs Thinking Said School Teacher Adults Best Teacher Your Favorite

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“If I am acting out in any particular way that is harmful to myself - without a shadow of doubt, there is a feeling suppressed under wanting that second candy bar. Often, it is that little voice I haven't paid attention to. It's generally not the adult voice. If I take a moment to address that and figure out what that is, the desire for the candy bar seems to dissipate.”

Ifs Way Littles Moments Feelings Seems Desire Voice Acting Attention Doubt Havens Figures Particular Adults Shadow Paid Bars Addresses Candy Acting Out Candy Bar

Author:Danny Boyle

“There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.”

Ifs Children Littles Young Parent Too Much Hair Mom Terrible Adults Europe Distance Young Adult Size My Mom Get Up Bows Shut Up Talk To Me Small Child Good Parent Great Parents

Author:Maya Angelou

“Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away.”

Ifs Years I Can Done Mother Memories Company Adults Died Passed Away Mother Died

Author:Christian Louboutin

“Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.”

Ifs Happens Able Courses Natural Consciousness Stage Adults Method Therapy Clients Comeback Suitable Infancy Regression Infancy Is

Author:Alice Miller

“If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Kids Taught Adults

Author:Mario Batali

“When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.”

Ifs World Way Humans Stills War Kids Young Humanity Realizing Born Human Beings Teach Planets Adults Fellows Young Adult War Of The Worlds World War Ii Better Ways Jeopardy Future Of Humanity

Author:Graham Nash

“According to a new survey, 40 percent of adults in Mexico say they would move to the United States if they got a chance. The number would have been higher, but the other 60 percent already live here.”

Ifs Has Beens States Moving Chance United Numbers United States Higher Percent Adults Mexico Surveys

Author:Conan O'Brien

“If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.”

Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

“I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!”

Ifs Writing Past Moving Grows Fiction Growing Up Reader Adults Teenager Cents

Author:Jodi Picoult

“'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.”

“People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.”

“All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.”

Ifs Hours Rooms Adults

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.”

Ifs Feels Long Enjoy Differences Long Time Adults Excited Mummy Turning 40

Author:Jill Scott

“If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.”

Ifs Children Wanted Life Is Purpose Dies Grows Secret Growing Up My Friends Adults Critical Vulnerable Frank

Author:Maurice Sendak

“Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving.”

Ifs World Giving Believe Children Helping Dies Poverty Serious Amount Adults Increase Aids Around The World Decent Good Life Decent Life Living The Good Life

Author:Peter Singer

“What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.'”

Ifs Knows Doe Week Adults Budgets Protein Budgeting

Author:Lewis Black

“Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.”

Ifs Children Principles Stage Adults Tactics

Book:The second sin

Source: The second sin

“I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.”

People Ifs Left White Wonder Adults Wings Starting Pursued Robes Left Wing Bigots Ku Klux Klan Zealot

Author:Clarence Thomas

“Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.”

Ifs Knows Should Children Book Literature Poor Reader Adults Relation Children's Books

Author:David Walliams

“I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.”

Ifs Knows Mean I Can Imagine Adults Privilege

Author:Andrew Wiles

“I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Persons America Young Father Causes Sports Voice Numbers Rich Adults Connections Baseball Radio Foxes Jimmy Hooked Peg Metropolitan

Author:George Will

“True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Enough Able Belief Adults Intelligent Assuming Civility

Author:Julian Baggini

“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”

Ifs Children I Can Seems Happens Morning Adults Get Up Warning Foreign Travel

Book:Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions

Source: Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions

“There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.”

Ifs Needs Book Stories Willing Adults Hunger Companionship Good Book

Author:Philip Pullman

“Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very hard to look at things as an adult does." Milo tried as hard as he could, and, as he did, his feet floated slowly off the ground until he was standing in the air next to Alex Bings. He looked around very quickly and, an instant later, crashed back down to the earth again. "Interesting, wasn't it?" asked Alex. "Yes, it was," agreed Milo, rubbing his head and dusting himself off, "but I think I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Looks Children Doe Said Hard Earth Fall Next Interesting Air Feet Adults Standing Instant Alex

Author:Norton Juster

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”

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Book:The Sense of Wonder

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.”

Ifs Years Mind Said Light Eye Forget Accepting Disease Adults Roots Crisis Painful Proportion Chickens Milk Smallest Adolescence Oxygen Nuisance Light Years Pox This Too Shall Pass

Author:Jodi Picoult

“...that was Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things to Have a Funner LIfe and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself Number 83...If a Adult Tells You Not to Worry, and You Weren't Worried Before, You Better Hurry Up and Start 'Cause You're Already Running Late.”

Ifs Life Running Causes Numbers Worry Late Adults Worried Liars Bud Running Late

Book:Bud, not Buddy: with connections

Source: Bud, not Buddy: with connections

“The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie sticks with the under-four-foot set. I cursed parents for not preparing their children. When I was five, my mother and sister sat me up on the kitchen counter and explained the facts of life: the Easter Bunny didn't exist, Elijah was God's invisible friend, with any luck Nana would die soon, and if I ever saw a unicorn, I should kill it or catch it for cash. I turned out okay.”

Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake

“The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies.”

Ifs Way Able Difficult Simple Clear Wise Adults Philosopher Complexity Distinction Great Philosophers

Book:How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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