“It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life. But no, I would watch all of them - the Warner Bros. cartoons and the Bugs Bunnys and then the Tex Avery stuff. Looking back on it, they were so incredibly subversive for their time. You'd think, "Oh, they're just making jokes and this or that." But when you watch them as an adult, you think, "Oh no, they were talking about some pretty deep stuff."” PeopleThinkingHardCertainStuffTalkingWatchesTerribleJokesAdultsLooking BackCartoonBugsSubversiveBrosWarner Bros Author:Jon Hamm
“It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed.” WayChildrenCountryEarthChangedTerribleAdultsLeavingTreatedUsaObese Author:Richard Simmons
“Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be damaging and it's potentially dangerous to young girls and terrible for "excess" boys. But polyamory is supposed to be a more equal arrangement among agreeing adults.” WorldYoungGirlBoysDangerousTerribleEqualAdultsAncientSupposed To BeExcessArrangementsPolygamyAncient HistoryPolyamory Author:Emily Yoffe
“You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of us. They should be neither seen nor heard. And no one must make another one.” ShouldWellsChildrenCharacterHeardTerribleAdultsDrawingDisguiseGrotesque Author:Gore Vidal
“I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were having a devil of a time selling it. It ended up in the hands of an editor of a children's publishing house, for which it was entirely inappropriate. She said, "Well, we can't publish this, but I think you should write something for children," which I thought was a really terrible idea.” ThinkingShouldWritingFirstsWellsChildrenSaidIdeasHandsSchoolHouseNovelWrittenTerribleHigh SchoolDevilAdultsEightSellingEditorsPublishingPublishInappropriatePublishing House Author:Daniel Handler
“Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.” ThinkingMindBitsMastersTerribleAdultsSuicideSurfaceCommitExcellentServantFirearmsLame Author:David Foster Wallace
“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” InspirationalWellsFeelingsMorningTerribleHealthyAdultsSevenAverageGet UpHealth CareThirtyGood MorningFunny Good Morning Author:Jean Kerr
“Like Summer Sisters comforted me just because I was like, okay things I've seen with my own eyes are not so terrible, and even though I knew adult gay people and had absolutely no issue with it. And I just couldn't articulate what made me so uncomfortable about the space that I shared with my friends becoming a sexual space. And it was very healing for me to read that, and feel like it was a part of other friendships, even fictional friendships I admire.” PeopleFeelsMadeEyeMy OwnSpaceHealingIssuesBecomingTerribleGaySummerMy FriendsAdultsOkayAdmireUncomfortableGay People Author:Lena Dunham
“There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.” IfsChildrenLittlesYoungParentToo MuchHairMomTerribleAdultsEuropeDistanceYoung AdultSizeMy MomGet UpBowsShut UpTalk To MeSmall ChildGood ParentGreat Parents Author:Maya Angelou
“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.” NeedsMeanChildrenSleepChildhoodFrontsBearsTerribleBedAdultsCommandConfessionHumiliationStigma 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
“It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood.” ChildrenRealityYoungGrowsParentCommonGriefChildhoodTerribleProtectAdultsBitterAwfulInnocenceVulnerabilityRodents Author:Katherine Dunn
“In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew... it would scare them.” KnowsRealityRememberMy OwnRichChildhoodTerribleAdultsProfoundMysteriousScareTerrible Things Author:Art Spiegelman
“I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them” KnowsRememberMy OwnChildhoodTerribleAdultsScareTerrible Things Author:Maurice Sendak
“It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.” ChildrenTerribleAdultsSooner Or Later Author:Daniel Handler