“While I had many friends as a child I aslo kept a great deal to myself. I noticed that adults were drawn to me. They would talk to me for hours at my parents' parties. Strange to find yourself at seven, dressed in pagamas with feet, listening to adults tell you their deepest secrets.” ChildrenParentHoursDealsPartySecretFeetStrangeListeningAdultsSevenFinding YourselfRamaTalk To MeMany Friends Author:Frederick Lenz
“Did you ever look into the personalities of male cooks, Army, logging camp, etc.? They're all supposed to be crazy, incomprehensible, contemptible. And angry. The act of feeding adult males seems to have strange personality effects.” LooksSeemsCrazyEffectsStrangePersonalityAdultsArmyAngryMalesSupposed To BeCooksEtcCampsFeedingBeing CrazyLogging Author:James Tiptree Jr.
“Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.” WayMayChildrenIdeasCultureStrangeSmartAdultsDumbEducate Author:Marvin Minsky
“Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap.” IfsWorldShouldChildrenMadeTwoKidsFilmFightingEvilDarknessStrangeSceneCreaturesAdultsScaryMonstersForestsDawnVillainNapsCurlsBenignDarkness Before The Dawn Author:Roger Ebert
“I grew up in an era when strange adults would grab me on the street and say: 'Don't do that.' You never see that these days. 'Hi, we took the liberty of spanking your son.' Oh thanks, my hand was getting worn.” HandsLibertyStreetsStrangeSonGrewGrew UpAdultsThanksErasThese DaysWornYour SonSpanking Author:Emo Philips
“You know, people always warn children about taking candy from strange adults. But they never warn us adults about taking candy from strange children.” PeopleKnowsChildrenStrangeAdultsCandy Book:This Book Is Not Good For You: The Secret Series Source: This Book Is Not Good For You: The Secret Series
“High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult, you're going to have to make some really intense decisions. It's a really pivotal time to have as much self-confidence as you possibly can. Even if that means you have one friend who supports you completely.” IfsMeanSelfKidsSchoolDecisionSupportStrangeHigh SchoolAdultsSelf ConfidenceIntenseSupport YouPivotalOne FriendStrange Times Author:Tyler Blackburn
“Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.” FactsAgeTermTalkingStrangeWalkingAdultsThirtyBirthdayFunny AgingBirthdays And Aging30th Birthday Author:C. S. Lewis
“As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.” PeopleKnowsWritingChildrenAnimalKnow HowStrangeGrewGrew UpPagesAdultsBottomDrawingChickensFarmsHandwritingScribbles Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.” WantedRealizingSeaStrangeAdultsDesertDryUnpredictableShiftingDesolate Book:Special Topics in Calamity Physics Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“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.” PeopleKnowsBelieveChildrenStoriesFacesValuesKnow HowConditionsStrangeComfortAmbitionAdultsResourcesUniversalOur ChildrenPlentyFragileFiniteAccustomedGod KnowsScarcityDoritos Author:Michael Chabon
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsChildrenHelpingWould BeKidsWantedPayPiecesStreetsStrangeSweetAdultsInstitutionsSellsBoxesCustomersBarsMysteriousPoisonBuyingCakeCandySchoolingLureUnsuspectingCandy BarBake Sale Author:Pseudonymous Bosch
“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.” KnowsImportantFactsNextForeverKnowingChildhoodStrangeAdultsLaysSubstanceRanUnusualChaptersExceptionalMistNext ChapterKnowing ThingsStrange Days Author:Trenton Lee Stewart