Speaking at Women's march in Los Angeles (21 January 2017).
Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
Mr Brown's self-esteem issue - or, asks Theodore Dalrymple, does Gordon Brown really believe that he can solve the problems of the world? http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001326.php (January 24, 2007). <br class="br">The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)
“Children like to work, and are always eager to imitate the work of adults.”
Georgi Plekhanov (1856–1918) Russian revolutionary
Utopian Socialism in the Nineteenth Century, 1913, Ch. 5.
“Adults must remember that they look like insane giants to children.”
Irving Fiske (1908–1990) American writer
Attributed without citation in Isabella Fiske McFarlin, et al., "Free The Kids! and Quarry Hill Community" http://search.proquest.com/openview/e76b1d1a966283049dcf60bcb9386c4d/1, Journal of Psychohistory, Vol. 21 No. 1 (Summer 1993), p. 21
“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”
Peter de Vries (1910–1993) American editor and novelist
“Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?”
Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor
As quoted in MarilynManson.com (2000).
2000s
Fritz von Uhde (1848–1911) German artist
As quoted in Bowron, Aurisch, Supan, Künste (2000). Romantics, realists, revolutionaries: masterpieces of 19th-century German painting from the Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig. Prestel. p. 158
“Maybe it’s like being a parent, you never really see your children as adults.”
Genevieve Cogman (1972) novelist and game designer
Source: The Burning Page (2016), Chapter 12 (p. 145)
Context: Maybe it’s like being a parent,” she said, bringing up a Library map. “You never really see your children as adults. “You’re exaggerating,” Kai said, with the easy confidence of someone who hadn’t tested the issue yet.
