Adulthood Quote by James Randi Download Open image “gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.” — James Randi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adulthood Blanket Children
“No one really believes in the gods of the New Age; they are deities not of the celestial hierarchy above but of the ornamental etagere in the corner, and their only "divine" office is to give symbolic expression to the dreamier sides of their votaries' personalities. They are purchased gods, gods as accessories, and hence are merely masks by means… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share
“A blanket could be used like the Romans used Greek gods. Still, if you want my honest opinion, I’d rather pray to cheddar cheese… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“It’s not God I want, it’s someone in skin!" a child once cried out to his mother. With an almost unbearable honesty, he expressed… — Noelle Oxenhandler Copy Share Image
“The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given — Lucian Copy Share Image
There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present.… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that confidence can… — James Randi Copy Share Image
One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies… — James Randi Copy Share Image
I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller's eyes. — James Randi Copy Share Image
To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a basic superstition,… — James Randi Copy Share Image
No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer. — James Randi Copy Share Image
I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue… — James Randi Copy Share Image
We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think. — James Randi Copy Share Image
I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, I… — James Randi Copy Share Image
... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it. — James Randi Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Two things suck about becoming an adult male - paying taxes and getting a finger in your butt. — Guy Code Copy Share Image
You can only pretend for so long before reality hits and you realize he/she is not who you thought or what you truly want. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“English: "Being an adult doesn't mean killing the child we once were; it means being able to protect him." Česky: „Být dospělým neznamená zabít… — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
“I wondered what a man I had encountered the day before on the plane en route to Chicago's O'Hare airport would have made of… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'" Rose chuckled. "But usually, they're just… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need. — Chris Hogan Copy Share Image
In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
