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The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up. — Patch Adams
Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy. — Isaac Asimov
Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities. — Charles Baudelaire
Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally… — Elwyn Brooks White
The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to… — David Ben-Gurion
When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own… — Confucius
Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children… — Erma Bombeck
For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory. — Eric Sevareid
It is the privilege of adults to give advice. It is the privilege of youth not to listen. Both avail themselves of their privileges, and… — Dominique Sutton
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults. — Abraham Lincoln
Most adults don't sing anymore. We have to break that, and start singing the name of the Almighty One, try to cultivate the emotions. We… — Dharma Mittra
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults. — Alfred Korzybski
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. — Grace Metalious
If we don't invest now in building character into children we will surely invest more tomorrow in trying to repair adults. — Michael Josephson
While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about… — John Wooden
If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar,… — Carl Sagan
Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults. — Unknown Author
Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race,… — Carrie Chapman Catt
It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if… — Koichiro Matsuura
One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children. — Carl Sagan
As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty, and… — Koichiro Matsuura
Social thinking skills must be directly taught to children and adults with ASD. Doing so opens doors of social understandings in all areas of life. — Temple Grandin
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas — Paula Poundstone
We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to… — Jaron Lanier
What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and… — Marian Wright Edelman

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