“It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh.” ChildrenFactsKidsGrowsPayLaughingGrowing UpDangerousHumourWindAdultsPrisonScaredProfessionSillyLikesChosenFunny Kid Book:Leaving home: a memoir Source: Leaving home: a memoir
“I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, "Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice."” ThinkingChildrenSaidIdeasUsedChoicesAdultsScaredAbandonedOnly Child Author:Demi Moore
“People just like the thrill of anything. Dangerous things and dark things are exciting. Like as a kid, I knew I wasn't going to get killed if I went into the Haunted House but you kind of feel like you are. And when it comes out the track the other side, it's like, "we're still alive"! And I find it really funny when adults get really scared because I've not been really scared since I saw Jaws when I was a little kid. I just think people like the thrill of it, they like to feel like they accomplished something, that they survived the movie.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsKindLittlesStillsKidsHouseSidesDarkSawsAliveDangerousLike YouAdultsExcitingTrackScaredAccomplishedSurvivedThrillLittle KidGet RealDangerous ThingsDark ThingsHaunted Houses Author:Rob Zombie
“I like movies that work on two levels - like The Simpsons, kids can watch it and adults can watch it. Teenagers can watch Hostel and if they want to see a blood and guts violent movie they're going to have a great time. They're going to scream and yell, it's a great date movie because they're going to squeeze their date and their date is probably going to be too scared to go home... so you take them home and put on Dirty Dancing and everybody wins.” IfsWantTwoHomeKidsWinningLevelsWatchesBloodAdultsDancingScaredViolentTeenagerDirtyGutsScreamGreat TimesDate MovieViolent Movies Author:Eli Roth
“I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.” WayKidsRememberNightAdultsScaredBumpsBeing Scared Author:Alex Hirsch
“Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.” WantChildrenAsksAnswersAdultsScaredDare Author:Martha Grimes
“While you were four, you didn't know anything other than being terrified and scared; you're not four any longer. Now [as an adult] you have to make a choice and recognize that even the abuse that came into your life offers you an opportunity to transcend it, to become a better person and even more significantly, to help someone else not go through what you did.” KnowsPersonsHelpingChoicesOpportunityFourOffersAdultsAbuseScaredTerrifiedBetter Person Author:Wayne Dyer
“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are 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. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsRealEndsFacesDiesEnergyBornForgetKnow HowGreaterFailingStupidBrokenShapesLosingHigh SchoolAdultsSizeScaredTeenagerLive LifeManifestationHopelessTeensTeenageInvincibleAlaskaSlyLooking For Alaska BookLabyrinth Looking For AlaskaPudgeTeenage Life Book:Looking for Alaska Source: Looking for Alaska
“Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.” HeartStillsMightRunningBrotherAdultsScaredProofVulnerableBetrayRapidsInvasionGrownupsLeonRunning Scared Book:The Chocolate War Source: The Chocolate War