Adults Quote by Glen Duncan

“I read somewhere that when you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.”

— Glen Duncan

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

— Jeannette Walls

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don't…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.

— James A. Baldwin

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

— Louise J. Kaplan

“Psychology researchers now claim that it is important for babies to learn how to stop crying by themselves. Fortunately, many parents still prefer to…

— Naomi Stadlen

And that's when I realized that there's really two ways people cry. You cry when you're sorry for yourself, and then you cry when…

— Fuyumi Ono

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

— Frank Herbert

Sometimes when you watch children, you feel that they show emotions that you, as an adult, can relate to.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

A little kindness goes long way but the sad thing is that a little cruelty goes further...

— Anonymous

Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body…

— Jeannette Walls