Home / Topics / Adults Quotes

Adults Quotes

Browse 2979 quotes about Adults.

Adults Quotes

“Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.”

Shows Adults Agree Agreement Infant

Book:The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash

“If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all”

Ifs Firsts Influence Pages Adults Letters Following Indian Milk Journal Infant Printed Headlines Education For All

Author:Lala Lajpat Rai

“Mistaken regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and the sterilization of such adults as are themselves of no value to the community. The laws of nature require the obliteration of the unfit and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community or race.”

Source: The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History

“Only idiots and infants need things. The language of needs is the native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts and is addressed to needy dependents. The language of wants is spoken by self-respecting adults and is addressed to other self-respecting adults.”

Want Needs Self Language Adults Investing Tongue Idiot Native Infant Therapists Needy

Author:Thomas Szasz

“The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.”

Way Humans Individual Cities Study Childhood Century Adults Complicated Finished Versions Curious Fascinating Transformed Infant

Book:GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA

Source: GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA

“Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.”

Sides Degrees Adults Notes Envy Enjoyment Infant Jerusalem Receptive

Book:...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel

Source: ...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel

“Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spontaneous, everyday events--the mailman at the door with a package to open...all of which need adult interpretation. They are real events of interest and concern to babies and young children....By contrast, infant education is artificial and out of context.”

“Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness between human beings, all creatures, and God. Kindness is a spirituality of solid truth, not shifting emotion; of justice, not occasional philanthropy; of genuine love, not sentimentality or masochism; of evolved adults, not fixated infants.”

“All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby.... Each adult wishes that he or she could do each job a bit more skillfully for the infant or small child than the other.”

Children Care Jobs Wish Bits Baby Adults Competition Who Cares Infant Small Child

Book:TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE

Source: TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE

“Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . Conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious.”

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“Women encourage killers. They do it by falling in love with warriors and heroes. Men know it and respond with enthusiasm. The Crusaders marched off to war with ladies favors in their helmets. The heroes sliced up adults and baked infants on spits, all the while thinking of how the damsels back home would admire their bravery.”

Source: The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History

“Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power to ameliorate the signs of distress. How can it be that we overlook its usefulness on the jangled adult as well? What is it that leads us to assume that the stressed child merely needs “comforting,” while the stressed adult needs “medicine”?”

Needs Wells Children Cry Adults Cat Medicine Assuming Frightened Distress Infant Comforting Stressed Usefulness Soothing

Author:Deane Juhan

“I completely reject the idea that working adults need to be treated like infants or worse and not told the realities, harsh or not, about the world of work. Keeping people in the dark and filling them with stories that are either mostly fabricated, unusually rare, or both, doesn't do anyone any good. It is one of the reasons that workplaces and careers remain in such dire straits.”

People World Needs Ideas Reason Stories Reality Dark Careers Adults Treated Rejects Harsh Workplace Infant Filling

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for the zoo trade must often kill all the adults in the family to capture the baby.”

May Fighting Baby Adults Trade Seeking Capture Infant Zoos Gorillas Poachers

Book:Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas

Source: Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas

“If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.”

Ifs Self Might Walks Imagine Baby Adults Criticism Tendencies Infant Screwed Up Self Criticism Stomping

Book:Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life

Source: Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life

“God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or the older person. In each one God sees His image and likeness. Human life is a manifestation of God and His glory.”

Humans Children Persons Doe Life Is Mother Youth Glory Adults Human Life Manifestation Abortion Infant Womb God's Love

Author:Pope Benedict XVI