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“I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.”

Children Animal Adults Ease Children Love

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O”

Source: The Worst Person In the World: And 202 Strong Contenders

“I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.”

Ifs Trying Humans Littles Character Stories Animal Secret Events Greatness Adults Warm Satire Historic Foibles

Book:Walt Disney: Conversations

Source: Walt Disney: Conversations

“human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.”

Ifs Humans Wells Children Remember Animal Adults Communicate Granted Human Animal

Book:Alice Walker Banned

Source: Alice Walker Banned

“Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.”

Way Doe Hurt Animal Environment Baby Research Adults Damage Barren

Author:Temple Grandin

“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.”

“There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous animals in the world have talked, but they talked real talk and they weren't called silly names like Doody and Mooloo. They were called names like The Cheshire Cat and they asked sensible questions like "Did you say pig, or fig?")”

World Children Book Real Literature Names Animal Talking Adults Cat Silly Sensible Pigs Figs Whimsical Condescending Children's Literature Real Talk

Author:Katharine Sergeant Angell White

“In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults”

Feels Children Animal Adults

Book:The life I really lived: a novel

Source: The life I really lived: a novel

“In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?”

Feels Children Feelings Animal Share Creatures Adults Cat Ecstasy Puppy Caress Grownups

Book:The life I really lived: a novel

Source: The life I really lived: a novel

“The magical approach is indeed the natural approach to life's experience. It is the adult version of childhood knowledge, the human version of the animals' knowledge, the conscious version of 'unconscious' comprehension.”

Humans Natural Animal Magic Childhood Approach Conscious Adults Versions Unconscious Comprehension

Author:Seth