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“Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.”

Author:Richard Lamm

“If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Kids Taught Adults

Author:Mario Batali

“Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors of the adult world. They know very early on that the world is sometimes a very dark, difficult and complex place, and the literature they read must reflect that. Otherwise we're just entertaining them to pass the time.”

Knows World Want Children Sometimes Problem Literature Difficult Dark Horror Adults Presses Complexes Entertaining Buttons

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.”

Way Want Games Realizing Powerful Adults Quitting My Way Highways Playing Games

Author:Barack Obama

“It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.”

Want Next Generations Changed Adults Next Generation Glowing

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.”

Want Children Teach Adults Raises

Author:Dennis Prager

“People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.”

“I think that children that are acting are always pretty savvy anyway because you're conducting yourself around adults a lot of the time, aren't you? But there is this worry now that children just want to be famous.”

Thinking Want Children Acting Worry Adults Conducting Savvy

Author:Ashley Jensen

“The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the season. His impatience makes him feel that he is incontrovertibly, finally, an adult.”

Want Feels Looks Sides Adults Seasons Holiday Impatience

Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.”

Thinking Knows Want Children Body Seems Certain Wish Talking Wonder Wise Adults Being Wise You Think You Know

Book:The Last Detective: A Novel

Source: The Last Detective: A Novel

“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.”

Knows Want Children Littles Stills I Can Book Matter Dream Order Differences Wonder Forever Seeing Adults Planes Pirate Live Forever

Author:Kathy Acker

“Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.”

Source: Walt Disney: Conversations

“No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want.”

Want Needs Looks May Persons Stills Remember Speak Parent Childhood Adults Blind One Time Rejected Wounded Companionship Womb Time Of Need

Author:Banana Yoshimoto

“I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do you know what you want. Even after you've done it you can't say clearly if that was what you'd wanted or just something that happened to you, like weather.”

Ifs Knows Want Done Wanted Happened Adults What You Want Statements Weather Do You Know Boast Quaint Girlhood Brash

Book:I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories

Source: I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories

“Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.”

Want Giving Should Trying Mind Children Kids Adults Blow Lazy Ambitious Librarian Patron Bakers Jelly Doughnut

Author:John Green

“Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?”

Ifs Way Want Doe Adults Yeah Beer

Book:Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires

Source: Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires

“What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.”

Men Want Real Facts Hours Emotion Adults Intelligent Seeking Crush Waking Bores Thrill Describing

Author:Julie Burchill

“I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.”

Want Believe Seems Today Form I Believe Adults Available Sanity Heroism

Author:David Foster Wallace

“Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up”

Ifs Thinking Want Grows Stuff Christ Growing Up Adults

Book:It

Source: It

“Do you know what separates adults from children? Self-discipline. We don’t want to go to work, we don’t want to do our chores, and we don’t want to make unpleasant decisions, but we do all those things because we’re aware of the consequences which will follow if we don’t.”

Ifs Knows Want Children Self Decision Discipline Adults Consequence Do You Know Self Discipline Chores

Author:Ilona Andrews

“When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know.”

Knows Want Effort Boys Conversation Adults Series Uncomfortable

Book:Moon Over Soho

Source: Moon Over Soho

“Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.”

Ifs Want Mean Sometimes Adults What You Want Right Thing Doing The Right Thing

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“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

“There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity becomes a vulnerability.”

“Next to fat babies, midgets are my favorite things to hold. I love them so much, and I want to help them to do adult things like drive cars, Jet-Ski, and lip-synch. I’m in awe of their little limbs, their large craniums, and their medicine-ball asses. I love the little baby steps they take while shifting their weight from side to side, and the fact that when you knock one over accidentally, he flails like a turtle on its back that can’t get up right away.”

Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

“Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.”

Way Want Moments Dies Childhood Ambition Adults

Book:In One Person: A Novel

Source: In One Person: A Novel

“the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,” as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused.”

Ifs World Want Mind Children Play Stories Rooms Modern Adults Accidents Fairy Association Old Fashioned Furniture Nursery Shabby Misused Fairy Stories

Book:Tales from the Perilous Realm

Source: Tales from the Perilous Realm

“It was a Friday night, she was at a club, and a good-looking man was currently giving her the I-want-to-take-you-home-and-I-hope-I-last-longer-than-five-minutes look… and she was thinking about pie, a young adult book, and feeding her cat. She was so turning into the cat lady at twenty-seven. Sweet.”

“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.”

Way Want Needs May Form Mother Wish Understanding Psychology Demand Understood Adults Meetings Nostalgia Violent Hook Vengeance Grudge Vengeful

Author:Adam Phillips

“[E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear.”

Want Sometimes Play Seems Kids Parent Talking Cry Drink Adults Coffee Cute Gorgeous

Book:Room: Picador Classic

Source: Room: Picador Classic

“Mr. Harinton was real. There were adults in the world who would actually make sacrifices for others - not just for their own families but for anyone who needed help. Nicholas had always had the impression that families looked after one another, and he had come to understand that, on rare ocassions, children would do the same... But this was different. What Mr. Harinton was doing certainly helped Nicolas - but it also simply felt right to Nicholas. It made him want to be exactly like Mr. Harinton himself.”

World Want Children Made Different Real Helping Felt Sacrifice Needed Adults Impression Sacrifice For Others Needed Help

Author:Trenton Lee Stewart

“I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories never made sense, and they were slow to start. They made me feel like there were secrets, Masonic, mythic secrets, to adulthood. Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies?”

Want Feels Children Made Stories Secret Dangerous Adults Myth Islands Fairy Adulthood Narnia Masonic Smugglers

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.”

Want Writing Children Reader Adults Miracle Only Child Writing Children's Books

Author:Astrid Lindgren

“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 has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?".”

Want Firsts Children Two Vision Adults First Time Our Children Your Children Memorable Awards Committees Nobel Fries

Author:Robin Williams

“It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to ever be didactic, but if there’s something I do want to say, it’s that you can bring things around. You can make a change. Adult novels are about letting go. Children’s novels are about getting a grip.”

Ifs Want Writing Children Character Ability Novel Events Letting Go Draws Adults Resolution Making Changes Didactic

Author:Tim Wynne-Jones

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