“Adults must remember that they look like insane giants to children.”
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
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American writer 1908–1990Related quotes
“Adults should strive to be more like children.”
Speaking at Women's march in Los Angeles (21 January 2017).
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Children like to work, and are always eager to imitate the work of adults.”
Utopian Socialism in the Nineteenth Century, 1913, Ch. 5.
“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”
“Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?”
As quoted in MarilynManson.com (2000).
2000s
“Maybe it’s like being a parent, you never really see your children as adults.”
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.
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).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)