Quotes About Adults

No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before then. Even Grimm's tales were written for adults. But it is true that ever since 'Harry Potter' there has been a renaissance in fantasy literature. J. K. Rowling opened the door again.

We've fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they're surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex, the rules of dignity and consent.

I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.

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.

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

Adults need to come to understand that the child does not want any of our power. He merely wants some of his own.

Bütün büyükler çocuklara dev gibi görünürler.

Neuroscience has shown that the child's brain is biologically primed to learn from experience, so that early environments powerfully affect the architecture of the developing brain. The most fundamental feature of that experience is interaction with responsive adults—typically, but not only, parents.

Bobier and colleagues give annual talks on safety to the town's children, lessons that they hope will stay with them through adulthood.

I'm finding it takes too much energy to do the things that people do to pass for competent adults.

There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

Although blood synthesis in adults is limited, the liver, spleen, and inactive (yellow) regions of marrow can resume blood cell production in times of need.

In adults, the only areas producing blood cells are the pelvis, spine, ribs, cranium, and proximal ends of long bones.

Adults are always so busy with the dull and dusty affairs of life which have nothing to do with grass, trees, and running streams.

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

Students have the right to know our goals—all of them. Challenging students, who have experienced adults as unpredictably dangerous creatures roaming their landscapes, have earned the right to be suspicious of us. If these students are to try again, we have to be transparent in our efforts.

Listening is a fundamental way to invite a child into the community. It is commonly said that listening is the cheapest concession you can make. In schools, adults listen, but mostly for the answers to our academic questions. We listen to determine what is right and wrong. We listen for opportunities to lecture.

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

Today, more than 50 percent of American adults are single, and 31 million—roughly one out of every seven adults—live alone.

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

You know how sporting events are. No one questions grown-ups hanging around. It's a pedophile picnic." Rauser glanced over at me as we walked back to the car. "That's how you see kids and sports?" "You know me. Ray of sunshine.