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Adulthood
«Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.»
Author: Grace Metalious
| About:
Adulthood,
Sex
| Keywords:
girlfriend, glass window, sawyer, sex drive, tom, Tom Sawyer
«Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| About:
Adulthood,
Future
| Keywords:
adult, bicycle, Bicycles, Future of, human race
«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»
Author: Rachel Carson
| About:
Adulthood,
Children,
Gifts
| Keywords:
adult, companionship, excitement, inborn, rediscover, rediscovered, rediscovering, rediscovers
«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»
«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.»
Author: William Bennett
(Author, Politician)
| About:
Adulthood,
Children,
Morality
| Keywords:
adults
«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»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Adulthood,
Fashion
| Keywords:
disturbed, dropped, endangered, flashing, infants, loud noise, react, startled, threatened
«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.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Adulthood,
Teenage
| Keywords:
adult, fat, in other words, spoil
«Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| About:
Adulthood,
Children,
Cute,
Graduation
| Keywords:
adults, ceremony, come home, contemporaries, graduation, graduations, raising, The Contemporary, tough, twenty-two, two-year, unemployed