Petty Adults Quotes & Sayings

And I'm sorry to inform you, but you're not proper either. — Leigh Bardugo

I was born on July 23rd, 1906, in Sarajevo in the province of Bosnia, which then belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy and later, in 1918, became part of Yugoslavia. — Vladimir Prelog

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing. — Jon Bon Jovi

I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker. — Greg Bryk

This is war, human." Mab's voice was cold and remorseless. "It is either kill or be destroyed ourselves. — Julie Kagawa

It is not possible to spend any prolonged period visiting public school classrooms without being appalled by the mutilation visible everywhere - mutilation of spontaneity, of joy in learning, or pleasure in creating, or sense of self ... Because adults take the schools so much for granted, they fail to appreciate what grim, joyless places most American schools are [they are much the same in most countries], how oppressive and petty are the rules by which they are governed, how intellectually sterile and esthetically barren the atmosphere, what an appalling lack of civility obtains on the part of teachers and principals, what contempt they unconsciously display for students as students. — John Holt

They're serious"
"Well I hope so, they are getting married — R.S. Burnett

They're not 'fellas.' They're not anywhere near human. They're nothing but leaking sacks of mutated maggots, just like you." Lookswise, he and the other angels I'd seen were closer to living Adonises, complete with god-like faces and presence. But inside, they were maggots for sure. — Susan Ee

The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time. — Tony Buzan

The food of hope is meditative action. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise Thee with joyful lips; when I remember Thee upon my bed, and meditate on Thee in the night watches. - Psalm 63:5, 6 — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Curing autism would be the same as "curing" science and art. — Kristine Barnett

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. — Eleanor Roosevelt