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“Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.”

Children Conflict Understood Adults Consequence Montessori

Author:Maria Montessori

“It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.”

Understood Adults Terminal

Author:Jacob K. Javits

“The new concept of the child as equal and the new integration of children into adult life has helped bring about a gradual but certain erosion of these boundaries that once separated the world of children from the word of adults, boundaries that allowed adults to treat children differently than they treated other adults because they understood that children are different.”

World Children Different Certain Equal Understood Concepts Adults Treats Boundaries Treated Integration Erosion

Author:Marie Winn

“My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of my parents were extremely liberal, so I think I grew up in a household that was very politically conscious - we all watched the elections on TV, and we watched the debates. So it was an awareness that we were raised with, and as we grew into young adults, we just naturally became politically active. It was just understood that it was important, that it was our responsibility.”

“In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.”

Ifs Ends Shows Honesty Amount Understood Adults Enormous Love And Honesty

Author:Tom Ford

“In terms of my relationships with a lot of the adult characters, when I was working with Harrison, it wasn't like a verbal agreement, but we both understood that because there was this constant tension between our characters, we couldn't say "Cut" and start acting normal. We had to keep an essence of that relationship in our characters off screen which is really important.”

Important Character Term Acting Cutting Normal Understood Adults Essence Constant Screens Tension Agreement

Author:Asa Butterfield

“The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.”

People Trying Age Stuff Materials Involved Understood Concepts Adults Critics Satire

Author:Andy Kaufman

“He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them.”

Men Ends Hate Wish Fear Understanding Secret Wife Relationship Understood Adults Mistress

Book:Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.”

Said Important Enemy One Thing Messages Understood Adults Army Deception Manipulation Officers Gravity Ender

Book:The Ender Quintet

Source: The Ender Quintet

“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

“They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly, adult. They looked out into the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine.”

Men World Way Different Doubt Childhood Understood Adults Machines Curiosity Abandoned Mechanic Matthew Inspectors Not Friends Without A Trace

Author:Arundhati Roy

“We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.”

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Author:Adam Phillips

“Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.”

Believe Children Differences Understood Adults Bad Things

Author:Joe Hill

“Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity... The second fundamental thing is independence.”

Firsts Children Two Law Serious Development Activity Understood Adults Independent Independence Fundamentals Urges Obliged

Author:Maria Montessori