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“As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.”

Thinking I Can Kids Turns Adults Temper Fierce Unforgiving

Author:Will Oldham

“The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.”

Ifs Young Turns Fiction Successful Models Adults Winner Online Users

Book:You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto

Source: You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto

“Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off.”

People Ifs Children Care Kids Turns Reading Sound Lines Talking Listening Benefits Adults Extras Immigrants Volume Deaf Turn Off

Author:F. Paul Wilson

“Somewhere around the turn of the century, it stopped being hip to say you never watched TV. Adults are much more likely to find something to engage them on television than they are at the local multiplex. Edges are being cut on television all the time, but at the movies only now and then.”

Turns Cutting Century Television Tvs Adults Edges Locals Hips Now And Then

Author:Tom Shales

“You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.”

“The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to solveyour problems for you or the dreaded ability to make you turn back into a child. When you are no longer hiding from your parents, or clinging to them, and can accept them as fellow human beings, then they may do the same for you.”

Giving Humans May Children Problem Would Be Turns Parent Human Beings Ability Accepting Growing Up Giving Up Adults Fellows Hiding Clinging Childlike Parental Lingering

Author:Frank Pittman

“Do we honestly believe that hopeless kids growing up under the harsh new rules will turn out to be chaste, studious, responsible adults? On the contrary, by limiting welfare, job training, education and nutritious food, won't we plant the seeds for another bumper crop of out-of-wedlock moms, deadbeat dads and worse?”

“I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing a state of boredom that in turn gives rise to much of the stupidity and meanness that oftem seem to epitomize the human condtion. In fact, these ills merely signify that the dues we pay for adult respectability are far too high, and bring some 'benefits' of questionable value.”

Thinking World Giving Humans States Facts Seems Values Turns Fear Pay Crazy Limits Benefits Adults Stupidity Dues Enjoyment Boredom Meanness Questionable Respectability

Author:D. Patrick Miller

“I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids.”

Ifs Kind I Can Ideas Reason Enough Stories Kids Turns Teacher Influence Adults Love Story

Author:Jim Carrey

“In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's care, and humility as another human being ready to educate an equal who may turn out to be a superior.”

Humans May Children Care Turns Human Beings Teaching Humility Ready Equal Authority Adults Superiors Educate Stable Providing Framework Fusion

Book:Unfinished journey

Source: Unfinished journey

“If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.”

Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

“A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.”

Way Helping Young Turns Adults Negative All Things Connected Online Naive Impulsive Negative Words

Author:Adora Svitak

“We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage a monotonous war against our own impending deaths, against time that turns children into that other, lesser species: adults. We take pictures because we know we will forget. We will forget the week, the day, the hour. We will forget when we were happiest. We take pictures out of pride, a desire to have the best of ourselve preserved. We fear that we will die and others will not know we lived.”

Knows Children War Moments Desire Dies Turns Hours Forget Accepting Week Pride Adults Species Repetition Impossibility Monotonous Impending Death

Author:Michelle Richmond

“A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.”

Children Mother Turns Company Comfort Demand Ordinary Adults Fellows Affection Selfish Horrible Selfless Ordinary Life Horrible Things

Book:The Four Loves

Source: The Four Loves

“We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other hand we always complained when teachers and other adults treated us as kids. In fact there was nothing that annoyed me more. So it was a frustrating situation. What we needed was a two-sided badge that said 'Mature' on one side and 'Childish' on the other. Then at any moment we could turn it to whatever side we felt like being and the adults could treat us accordingly.”

Years Said Two Enough Moments Facts Hands Kids Turns Felt Sides Situation Teacher Fronts Serious Needed Adults Treats Treated Mature Frustrating Respectable Annoyed Had Enough Badges

Book:Darkness Be My Friend

Source: Darkness Be My Friend

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Made Turns Half Seeing Childhood Adults Vices Vulnerable Made It Comforting Vice Versa

Author:Vicki Pettersson

“Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really inquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right.”

People Thinking World Children Ends Certain Turns Bits Animal Baby Easier Understood Adults Clean Lips Milk Feeding Cleaning Catching Granny

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight along with six to eight black men. They might put some candy in your shoes, they might stuff you into a sack and take you to Spain, or they might just pretend to kick you. We don't know for sure, but we want you to be prepared." This was the reward for living in the Netherlands. As a child you get to hear this story, and as an adult you get to turn around and repeat it.”

Knows Men Want Children Stories Might Together Turns Stuff Black Bed Six Adults Prepared Rewards Shoes Eight Former Kicks Repeats Tonight Packs Be Prepared Candy Spain Turkeys Bishops Netherlands

Author:David Sedaris

“Please tell me we don't grow up and turn into the adults that drive us crazy.”

Turns Grows Growing Up Crazy Please Adults

Book:Bloodfever: Fever Series

Source: Bloodfever: Fever Series

“The real questions for parents should be: "Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?" If so, plan to make lots of mistakes and bad decisions. Imperfect parenting moments turn into gifts as our children watch us try to figure out what went wrong and how we can do better next time. The mandate is not to be perfect and raise happy children. Perfection doesn't exist, and I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.”

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become.”

“Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.”

Feels Firsts Children Turns Emotional Adults Selling Buying Apartment

Author:Anderson Cooper

“It's very easy to turn a toy into an adult toy: Location, location, location.”

Humor Funny Turns Easy Comedy Adults Toys Location

Author:Demetri Martin

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