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“We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared.”

“Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of its adult members is in the shower. No one knows why.”

Ifs Knows Ideas Country Kids Accepting Members Adults Harm Showers

Book:I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake

“I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do you know what you want. Even after you've done it you can't say clearly if that was what you'd wanted or just something that happened to you, like weather.”

Ifs Knows Want Done Wanted Happened Adults What You Want Statements Weather Do You Know Boast Quaint Girlhood Brash

Book:I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories

Source: I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories

“Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.”

Knows Children Littles Real Country Reading Imagination Adults Newspapers Harry Potter Potters

Author:Lorrie Moore

“You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my hands.' 'So what did he say?' 'I don't know.' 'I thought you said you spoke gibberish?' 'I do. But your baby doesn't. I think he's speaking either pre-toddler nonsense, a form of infact burble or an obscure dialect of gobbledygook. In any event, I can't understand a word he's saying.' 'Oh.”

Thinking Knows Said I Can Hands Form Courses Speak Events Baby Adults Ran Nonsense Spokes Obscure Toddler Dialect Adult Education

Author:Jasper Fforde

“We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.”

Knows Real Kids Love Is Poor Pure Adults Forgotten Dare Compromise Substitutes Distraction Real Love Pure Love

Book:Boy Toy

Source: Boy Toy

“I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.”

Thinking Knows Years Stills Boys Know How Adults Aging Notes Pretending Living My Life

Author:Richard Linklater

“Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand.”

Knows World Believe Children Honest Adults Where You Stand

Book:If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

“Do you know what separates adults from children? Self-discipline. We don’t want to go to work, we don’t want to do our chores, and we don’t want to make unpleasant decisions, but we do all those things because we’re aware of the consequences which will follow if we don’t.”

Ifs Knows Want Children Self Decision Discipline Adults Consequence Do You Know Self Discipline Chores

Author:Ilona Andrews

“When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know.”

Knows Want Effort Boys Conversation Adults Series Uncomfortable

Book:Moon Over Soho

Source: Moon Over Soho

“Adults always acted like they could fix everything. But they can't. And they know it.”

Knows Adults

Book:Retro Demonology

Source: Retro Demonology

“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside—walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It's the saddest thing I know.”

People Knows Heart Ideas Jobs Dies Speak Waiting Pieces Walking Adults Cancer No Idea Shocked Truck Saddest One Piece Heart Attack Mack Mack Trucks

Book:Speak

Source: Speak

“I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult. The real trick—the real choice—is to keep the best of the child you were, without forgetting when you grow up. “It is the best of both worlds, Jack. Being a child is to believe in magic everywhere… “…but even Peter Pan had to grow up one day.”

Source: Dawn of the Dragons: Here, There Be Dragons; The Search for the Red Dragon

“Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight along with six to eight black men. They might put some candy in your shoes, they might stuff you into a sack and take you to Spain, or they might just pretend to kick you. We don't know for sure, but we want you to be prepared." This was the reward for living in the Netherlands. As a child you get to hear this story, and as an adult you get to turn around and repeat it.”

Knows Men Want Children Stories Might Together Turns Stuff Black Bed Six Adults Prepared Rewards Shoes Eight Former Kicks Repeats Tonight Packs Be Prepared Candy Spain Turkeys Bishops Netherlands

Author:David Sedaris

“A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place The terrorist doesn't know that one of these kids has bugged every room in her house, made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kid works for CHERUB CHERUB agents are aged between 10 and 17. They live in the real world, slipping under adult radar and getting information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail.”

“Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.”

People Knows Giving Children Sometimes Motivational Grows Simple Pleasure Growing Up Degrees Approach Adults Contentment Not Afraid Delighted Disneyland Simple Pleasures

Author:Walt Disney

“Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can.”

Knows Should Children Helping Opportunity Given Adults Capacity Helping Others

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god,for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then... what is the point?”

Ifs Knows Heart Seems Heaven Cases Demand Adults Creator Punishment Bitter Behave Latter Transparent Catapults Bitter Experience

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts.”

Ifs Knows Way Kind Has Beens Matter Facts Use Problem Today Too Much Dog Mines Approach Adults Train Sticks Population Educated Lifts Select Matter Of Fact

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“You know, people always warn children about taking candy from strange adults. But they never warn us adults about taking candy from strange children. All those sweet-looking kids who sell boxes of candy bars on the street to help pay for schooling - how do we know what's in those bars? And don't even get me stated on that nefarious institution designed to lure unsuspecting customers into buying mysterious frosted goodies: the bake sale. Adults, be warned: if a child wanted to poison you it would be a piece of cake! Literally a piece of cake.”

“You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.”

Knows World Hard Kids Age Deals Stage Adults Maturity

Book:The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind.”

Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran.”

Knows Important Facts Next Forever Knowing Childhood Strange Adults Lays Substance Ran Unusual Chapters Exceptional Mist Next Chapter Knowing Things Strange Days

Author:Trenton Lee Stewart

“No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do. He knew the way he thought things should be, and Mr. Harinton was proving that other people--even adults--could feel the same way. Nicholas had something to aim for now. He might not know what he wanted to be when he grew up, but he knew with absolute certainty how he wanted to be.”

People Knows Way Feels Should Might Wanted Purpose Grew Prove Grew Up Adults Absolutes Aim Certainty Absolute Certainty

Author:Trenton Lee Stewart

“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.”

“Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, grown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God. Life has more than enough excitement up its sleeve, ready to hit you with as soon as you're not looking, without you adding to the drama.”

Thinking Knows Men Enough Ready Drama Men And Women Adults Boring Block Teenager Excitement Without You Sleeves God Life Grown Man

Book:The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2

Source: The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2

“She did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. When adults say, "Teenagers think the hate invincible," with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.”

“In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew... it would scare them.”

Knows Reality Remember My Own Rich Childhood Terrible Adults Profound Mysterious Scare Terrible Things

Author:Art Spiegelman

“I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway.”

Ifs Knows Believe Enough Happened Adults Believe In Me

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them”

Knows Remember My Own Childhood Terrible Adults Scare Terrible Things

Author:Maurice Sendak

“My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?”

People Knows Kind Together Mother Grew Mom Grew Up Adults My Mom Motherhood Treated Workaholic Curfew Like A Sister Family Oriented

Author:Kelly Clarkson

“We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.”

Knows Children Doe Grows Differences Growing Up Learning Adults Aging Former Latter

Author:W. H. Auden

“What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature. We now know that an adult mammalian cell can fire up all the dormant genetic instructions that shut down as it divides and specializes and ages, and thus can become a source of new life. You can outlaw technique; you cannot repeal biology. Writing after Wilmut's successful cloning of the sheep, Dolly, that research on the cloning of human beings cannot be suppressed.”

“Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.”

Knows Stills Grows Waiting Growing Up Adults

Author:Richard Dreyfuss

“The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.”

Knows Helping Purpose Teach Learning Teaching Adults Adult Education

Author:Carl Rogers

“I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.”

Knows Book Self Helping Happens Age Black White Self Help Conversation My Friends Adults Areas Balls Mediums Gray Black And White Cheese Temperature Life Happens Gray Area

Author:Justin Timberlake

“College is such a unique time because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you're exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn't even know how to think until I got to college.”

Thinking Knows Feels Mind Littles Care Bits Know How Influence College Little Bit Unique Adults Take Care Exposed Parental Take Care Of Yourself Great Minds Parental Influence

Author:Anne Hathaway

“I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'”

Knows Feels Play Next Minutes Adults Teenager One Minute Hide And Seek

Author:Natalie Portman

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