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«I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Adulthood,
Children
| Keywords:
adult, Company of, infinitely, invariable, issue, preferable, take issue, term
«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.»
«Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
| About:
Adulthood,
Study
| Keywords:
adulthood, bane, indulgence, indulgences, restorative
«Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.»
Author: Lily Tomlin
(Actress, Comedian)
| About:
Adulthood,
Advertising,
Politicians,
Politics
| Keywords:
adults, Americans, but then, decent, eight, elected, electing, elects, hardworking, lousy, ninety, Ninety eight, percent, publicity
«Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
| About:
Adulthood,
Movies
| Keywords:
adulthood, entertainment, ideals, In the Realm, movies, normal, objectives, realm, shaping, tremendous
«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.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Adulthood,
Children
| Keywords:
adult, develop, normal, one to, relativity, space, space and time, stops, theory, theory of, theory of relativity, think about
«I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were clueless goobers.»
«Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards»
«I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Adulthood,
Silence
| Keywords:
adult, appreciate, blessing, blind person, deaf, deaf person, deaf to, early, early days, joys, My early days, sight, Sight and Sound
«Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Adulthood
| Keywords:
adults, engaged, enterprises, pleasantly, queer, queerer, queerest, remind, talked
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