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“What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.”

“And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in twenty viewers actually had a bad reaction. And it was mostly kids who were affected. I mean younger than you guys. I think the average age was about ten.' That made me feel somewhat better. But that was a kid's show,' said Jen. 'Maybe it affects everyone, but not that many adults were watching.' That made me feel less better. I wanted my protective bangs back.”

Thinking Knows Feels Should Mean Made Said Shows Kids Age Wanted Guy Ten Safe Adults Twenties Average Reactions Affected Viewers Bangs Protective

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.”

Ifs Mean Littles Said Language Trouble Listening Adults Ears They Said Really Mean Drains

Book:The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel

Source: The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel

“Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He’s caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.”

World Writing Mean Young Wise Adults Young Adult Caught Innocent Phrases Embodiment Holden Holden Caulfield

Author:David Levithan

“A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.”

People Firsts Mean Children Long School Long Time Adults Standing Tasks Trade Phrases Instruction Long Time Ago Tedious Bossy

Author:Daniel Handler

“Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.”

Needs Mean Children Sleep Childhood Fronts Bears Terrible Bed Adults Command Confession Humiliation Stigma

Book:The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past

Source: The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past

“The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?”

Way Giving Mean Ideas Self Boys Advice Like You Adults Yeah Being Yourself Fourth

Author:John Green

“Dimitri: "Rose, I'm seven years older than you. In ten years, that won't mean so much, but for now, it's huge. I'm an adult. You're a child.” Rose: "You didn't seem to think I was a child when you were all over me.” - Rose Hathaway & Dimitri Belikov (Vampire Academy)”

Thinking Years Mean Children Seems Huge Ten Adults Rose Seven Vampire Seven Years Academy Dimitri Vampire Academy Rose Hathaway Dimitri Belikov Dimitri Rose

Author:Richelle Mead

“Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.”

Ifs Want Mean Sometimes Adults What You Want Right Thing Doing The Right Thing

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Mean Enough Choices Pay Attention Exercise Conscious Adults Pay Attention Constructs Really Mean

Author:David Foster Wallace

“The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.”

People Thinking Mean Children Littles Doe Soul Matter Feelings Care Parent Class Virtue Blood Adults Regard Bottom Our Time Dislike Entitled Isms Does It Matter

Author:Thomas Hardy

“I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?”

Ifs Years Looks Mean Book Would Be Jobs Lasts Courses Reading Stuff Adults Busy Average Teenager Last Year Miami Csi Csi Miami

Author:John Green

“Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating.”

Mean Self Play Enjoy Levels Honest Adults Affection Being Honest Behave License Geek Liberating Like Something Being Afraid Emote

Author:Simon Pegg

“Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.”

Mean Action Situation Accepting Adults

Book:Five complete Travis McGee novels

Source: Five complete Travis McGee novels

“To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.”

Mean Doe Made Results Goes On Easier Despair Adults Ugly Made It Spite Usual Ambiguity Annihilation Hardened

Book:Three plays

Source: Three plays

“It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me?”

Years Mean Moments Culture Realizing Please Adults Seven Acknowledge That Moment Seven Years Variation Request Updates Twitter And Facebook Status Updates

Book:Attempting Normal (Enhanced Edition)

Source: Attempting Normal (Enhanced Edition)

“Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.”

Mean Littles Bits Sweet Taste Little Bit Adults Things Change Youngsters

Author:Mike Ditka

“We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see how child rearing patterns produce nurturing adult behaviors.”

Looks Mean Children Values Produce Conflict Behavior Adults Patterns Handle Nonviolence Nurturing Child Rearing

Author:Elise M. Boulding

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