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Adults Quotes by Maurice Sendak
- I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate…
- To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child…
- If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me…
- To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing…
- I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
- It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
More Adults Quotes
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working,… — Drew Barrymore
- I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to… — Roseanne Barr
- When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it,… — Drew Barrymore
- If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me… — Mario Batali
- There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. — Jean Baudrillard
- What is an adult? A child blown up by age. — Simone de Beauvoir
- The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times. — Martha Beck
- Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. — Martha Beck
- Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children… — Martha Beck
- An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. — Pope Benedict XVI