“We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.”
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Brené Brown101
US writer and professor 1965Related quotes
John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) writer from the United States
Travis McGee series, A Tan and Sandy Silence (1972)
Context: We're all children. We invent the adult facade and don it and try to keep the buttons and the medals polished. We're all trying to give such a good imitation of being an adult that the real adults in the world won't catch on. Each of us takes up the shticks that compose the adult image we seek. I'd gone the route of lazy, ironic bravado, of amiable, unaffiliated insouciance. Tinhorn knights of a stumbling from Rent-A-Steed, maybe with one little area of the heart so pinched, so parched, I never dared let anything really lasting happen to me. Or dared admit the the flaw...
The adult you pretend to be convinces himself that the risk is worth the game, the game worth the risk. Tells himself the choice of life style could get him killed — on the Daytona track, in the bull ring, falling from the raw steel framework forty stories up, catching a rodeo hoof in the side of the head.
Adult pretenses are never a perfect fit for the child underneath, and when there is the presentiment of death, like a hard black light making panther eyes glow in the back of the cave, the cry is, "Mommy, mommy, mommy, it's so dark out there, so dark and so forever."
“We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment”
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
James P. Gray (1945) American judge
Source: Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs, 2011, p. 53
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 141
“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”
Peter de Vries (1910–1993) American editor and novelist
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
“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
