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Letter "A" » adults
«For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.»
«Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?»
«I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.»
«Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.»
«For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.»
«I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask. I was not afraid to ask.»
«If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.»
Author: Marian Wright Edelman
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Keywords:
adults,
charities,
churches,
civic,
colleges,
corners,
cut corners,
gender,
genders,
jokes,
pass on,
poison,
portion,
racial,
snicker,
snuff,
snuffed,
snuffing,
snuffs,
snuff it,
snuff out,
spend-all,
synagogues,
tithe,
tithing
«Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.»
«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.»
Author: Dave Barry
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Humorist,
Writer)
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About:
Adulthood
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Keywords:
adults,
capped,
caps,
clueless,
distinctly,
goober,
ice cap,
polar,
recall,
retreated,
shortly,
virtually,
young person
«Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
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About:
Adulthood,
Children,
Cute,
Graduation
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Keywords:
adults,
ceremony,
come home,
contemporaries,
graduation,
graduations,
raising,
The Contemporary,
tough,
twenty-two,
two-year,
unemployed