“Seeing movies about mental illness, a lot of falseness has leapt out at me over the years... So I just focused on what I remembered, the real experience of seeing somebody like that. And as an adult, I’ve had family members who are bipolar, so I’ve seen it again.” YearsRealSeeingMembersAdultsIllnessFocusedMental IllnessRememberedFamily MembersBipolarFalseness Author:Maya Forbes
“When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.” PeopleFeelsWellsChildrenEnoughFeelingsRealityEmotionSeeingAdultsComplicatedUpsetHidingLayersTrue FeelingsSubterfugeHiding Things Author:Wallace Shawn
“If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.” IfsChildrenEyeDesireNationsCommunityCitiesSeeingExampleAdultsEndeavorSensibleHumaneKinderThrough The EyesEyes Of A Child Book:Childhood's Future Source: Childhood's Future
“One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.” PeopleInspirationalParentSeeingMomBecomingDadBlessingAdultsMy MomMom And DadBecoming An Adult Author:Sara Shandler
“Individuality is vitally important. When people start to lose their individuality is when I believe they start to lose themselves. I think children are born with this message, and it shouldn't be taken away from them. I hope they walk away with it after seeing the film, and adults too. And I notice it also with myself, because the older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.” PeopleThinkingBelieveChildrenImportantFilmI BelieveBornLosesMy OwnWalksTakenSeeingMessagesAdultsEmbraceIndividualityIdiosyncrasies Author:Brittany Murphy
“As a kid, there [on TV] were things I wasn't aware of - insecurities while transition from teen to adult. When I was around 17 and 18, I started seeing the benefits of this world.” WorldKidsSeeingThis WorldTvsBenefitsAdultsInsecurityTransition Author:Kofi Siriboe
“We are watching people who've been educated in the public school system and in colleges for the last 25 or 30 years become adults. They're getting jobs as TV commentators and journalists and writers and editors and producers in the media. And we're simply seeing the product of what they've been taught. And they so hate what they've been told is America's history and past that they want everybody to know they disagree with it and they've got nothing to do with it, and they had nothing to do with it, and don't blame them.” PeopleKnowsWantYearsSchoolJobsLastsAmericaPastHateSeeingMediaTaughtCollegeTvsProductsAdultsBlameProducersEducatedJournalistEditorsDisagreePublic SchoolCommentatorsSchool System Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.” PeopleWayLongKidsCertainSeeingAdultsConcernedComplaining Author:Taylor Swift
“I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in wonder. Now, I know, as much as I can know anything, that to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates know. There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate.” KnowsWantChildrenLittlesStillsI CanBookMatterDreamOrderDifferencesWonderForeverSeeingAdultsPlanesPirateLive Forever Author:Kathy Acker
“There’s something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There’s also something comforting in thinking that if they made it this far, relatively unscathed, then maybe you didn’t turn out half bad either.” IfsThinkingMadeTurnsHalfSeeingChildhoodAdultsVicesVulnerableMade ItComfortingVice Versa Author:Vicki Pettersson
“For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.” IfsChildrenLongFeelingsLastsWaitingDecisionLove IsSeeingAdultsCommitmentChildren LoveWavering Book:Pathfinder Source: Pathfinder