Adulthood quotations

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◆ It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old,and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

- 99

◆ If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

- P J O'Rourke98

◆ For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

- William Bennett98

◆ If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in adult life

- Susanna Miller98

◆ The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

- Margaret Mead98

◆ If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in

- Rachel Carson98

◆ Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

- H G Wells98

◆ Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards

- George Orwell98

◆ Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.

- G K Chesterton98

◆ Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

- Erich Fromm98

◆ I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child.

- Albert Einstein98

◆ What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

- Sigmund Freud98

◆ If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods

- Ralph Waldo Emerson98

◆ Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light, or

- Abraham Maslow98

◆ An adult male living alone stops being a vaguely tragicomic bachelor once he is found in the circumstance of simultaneously taking a whiz and eating a sandwich

- Dean Allen98