Best adults & periods Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.”

Years Play Bigs Kids School Young Four Feet Periods Six High School Adults Yeah Lawyer

Author:Jason Segel

“Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation for adult responsibility and public and private life. A program of children cannot be merely an adaptation of the program for adults, nor should it be curtailed during periods of depression or emergency expansion of other programs.”

Should Children Growth Responsibility Childhood Development Periods Adults Program Preparation Pockets Expansion Emergencies Adaptation Private Life

Author:Grace Abbott

“With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.”

Pain Grace Childhood Special Periods Unique Adults Core Ignorant Bliss Lament Ignorant Bliss

Author:Barry Privett

“I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.”

Years Desire Periods Adults Protected Infancy

Author:David Gordon Green

“My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.”

People World Important Moments Fall Lost Answers Failing Stage Fronts This World Periods Adults Falling In Love Busy Invisible Peers Too Busy Listen To Me Spoken Word Time Periods

Author:Sarah Kay

“the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it.”

People Needs Children Hard Care Age Dies Culture Belief Childhood Periods Adults Myth Old Age Be You Drudgery

Book:The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

“From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.”

Knows Needs Giving Children Young Order Childhood Special Masters Perspective Periods Adults Breathing Protected Immaturity

Author:Alison Gopnik

“During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.”

Giving House Hours Liberty Periods Adults Legs House Arrest

Author:Julian Assange

“Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood.”

Years Children States Past Social Goal Change Childhood Special Changed Periods Demand Adults Importance Ill Eras Lasting Temporary Conception Protected Adulthood Over The Past Unreasonable

Author:Sandra Scarr

“Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany shortcoming in adult life was now seen as rooted in the failure of mothering during childhood.”

Children Responsibility Childhood Fashion Perspective Periods Adults Rooted Wwii Shortcomings Mothering Child Rearing

Author:Sylvia Ann Hewlett

“I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.”

Mean Would Be Guy Girl Found Periods Adults Female Importance Males Guy Friend Females And Males

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.”

Problem Form Difficult Forget One Thing Periods Solutions Adults Unconscious Infancy Burying

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval.”

“I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is finished, long after cards have been sent and apologies made and everyone else had moved on. Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions”

Long Has Beens Made Ideas Feelings Emotion Events Periods Adults Moved Finished Cards Useless Apology Packs Rats Moved On Long Periods Of Time

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

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

“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.”

“Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.”

May Doe Ends Young Humanity Behinds Gone Periods Disease Adults Constitution Mark Slavery Toxic Complaints Infancy Poisoning Infantile Measles

Author:Olive Schreiner

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