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• A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

  Thomas Szasz

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Adulthood

• Where do babies come from? Don’t bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation have yielded fruitful, if tentative, results. There are several theories. Near as we can figure out, it has something to do with acting ridiculous in the dark. We believe it is similar to dogs when they act peculiar and ride each other. This is called “making love”. Careful study of popular song lyrics, advertising catch-lines, TV sitcoms, movies, and T-Shirt inscriptions offers us significant clues as to its nature. Apparently it makes grown-ups insipid and insane. Some graffiti was once observed that said “sex is good”. All available evidence, however, points to the contrary.

  Matt Groening

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Babies, Adulthood

• I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Adulthood

• To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• It changed me more than anything else. You don’t want to get to that place where you’re the adult and you’re palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

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• Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in

  Mark Twain

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• When you grow up your mother says, ‘Wear rubbers or you’ll catch cold.’ When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It’s something like that.

  Diane Arbus

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Growing Up, Adulthood

• The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

  Niccolò Machiavelli

  Topics in Children

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• The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Topics in Children

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• I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were clueless goobers.

  Dave Barry

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• If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Teenage, Adulthood