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“As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.”

Thinking World Children Past Worry Concepts Adults Our Time Engaging Submerged Worrying About The Past

Author:Chris Ware

“I'm a little fatigued of adults saying we've got to worry about the kids. And these are the same adults that don't know science and are running things and wielding resources and legislation.”

Knows Littles Running Kids Worry Adults Resources Legislation

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, have more fun, be more honest with your own feelings, develop your own joys and friendships, and don't sweat the small stuff (which is nearly everything). The goal is not to be a perfect parent, because no such thing exists. The hope is to be a good enough parent so that your child leaves home a responsible adult who can take care of him or herself.”

“I'd like to see people worry less about their inner child and more about their outer adult.”

People Children Worry Adults Inner Child Worry Less

Author:Ron Bennington

“An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.”

Stills Ends Worry Hero Kissing Adults Horse Western

Author:Milton Berle

“I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.”

Writing I Can Song Lines Worry Adults Pops Sensibility Hook Chorus

Author:John Mellencamp

“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

“...that was Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things to Have a Funner LIfe and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself Number 83...If a Adult Tells You Not to Worry, and You Weren't Worried Before, You Better Hurry Up and Start 'Cause You're Already Running Late.”

Ifs Life Running Causes Numbers Worry Late Adults Worried Liars Bud Running Late

Book:Bud, not Buddy: with connections

Source: Bud, not Buddy: with connections

“Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.”

Littles Mother Girl Worry Daughter Adults Opposites Cute Relief Adolescence Relaxed

Book:Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the world deliberately blind, living only inside their heads, in their fantasies, in their memories and worries, oblivious to the present, only aware of the past or future.”

World Children Past Imagination Memories Worry Fantasy Imagine Truth Is Adults Blind Wander Envied Oblivious

Book:The World to Come

Source: The World to Come

“It's a little known fact, but parents are like superheroes. With just a few magic words they can make you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof, they can slay the dragons of doubt and worry, they can make your problems disappear. But of course they can only do this as long as you're a child. When you've become an adult, become the master of your own universe, they're not as powerful as they once were. Maybe that's why so many of us take our time growing up.”

Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

“Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions.”

Ifs Inspirational Worry Too Much Havens Adults Plant Species Obsession Grass Graduation Maintenance Lawns Time And Money Turf

Author:John Green