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Letter "A" » Adulthood
«Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.»
Author: Caryn Leschen
| About:
Adulthood,
Age,
Body,
Elderly,
Mind
| Keywords:
finally, head start, starts, thirty-five, thirty
«The adult looks to deed, the child to love»
«The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.»
«What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Adulthood,
Children
| Keywords:
adult, adult intelligence, average, contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, distressing, feeble, mentality, radiant
«Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.»
Author: Gore Vidal
| About:
Adulthood,
Advertising,
America and Americans,
Teenage
| Keywords:
captive, hostile, occurred, teenager
«What is an adult? A child blown up by age.»
«The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Adulthood,
Children
| Keywords:
adults, at bottom, distinction, egos, For some, purposes, specious
«The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Adulthood,
Children
| Keywords:
adults, feeding, feed upon, forced, gifts, ignore, insist, learns, lessons, mental, mental process, natural process, tyrants
«To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Adulthood
| Keywords:
adult, Eye of, illuminate, illuminates, illuminating, persons, shines, superficial, The Eye
«Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
| About:
Adulthood,
Age,
Elderly,
Growing up,
People
| Keywords:
inferiors, patronize, patronized, patronizes, patronizing
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