Quotations
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adult
«Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.»
Author: Blake Clark
| About:
Army,
Funny
| Keywords:
adult, boy scout, Boy Scouts, Scouts, supervision
«A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.»
«Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.»
Author: Dr. Rollo May
| About:
Childhood,
Creativity,
Death and dying,
Living,
Passion,
Youth
| Keywords:
adult, spontaneity, The Passion
«Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| About:
Adulthood,
Future
| Keywords:
adult, bicycle, Bicycles, Future of, human race
«Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
adult, exhibitionism, masochistic, occupation
«If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in»
Author: Rachel Carson
| About:
Adulthood,
Children,
Gifts
| Keywords:
adult, companionship, excitement, inborn, rediscover, rediscovered, rediscovering, rediscovers
«If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in adult life»
«A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.»
«Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Adulthood,
Affection
| Keywords:
adult, adults, Grown up, relatively, selfish