She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.
– Rebecca West
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- Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too. – William Faulkner
- It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life. – Albert Camus
- Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. – Peter De Vries
- I talk to children like adults and to adults like children. – Bryant McGill
- Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive. – Tim Relf
- I remember my own childhood vividly…I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them – Maurice Sendak
- Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. – Neil Gaiman
- I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies… – Neil Gaiman
- The adult within me would be much wiser to learn from the child within me rather than focus on the demand that the child within me grow up. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work. – Jeremy Camp
- The qualities required to be a good leader are usually incompatible with the qualities required to become a leader. – Francis Mont
- If you’re adult enough to have sex, you’re adult enough to talk about your feelings. – Carter Quinn
- For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be. – John Connolly
- When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people. – Mahrukh
- Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics. – Stephen King
- one of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood – Anonymous
- something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring what is within out! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within. – Arthur Miller
- Men are handicapped in love, either in giving or in receiving. They consider love as a sign of weakness – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Not only a man without hand is handicapped but also a man without health. – Amit Kalantri
- A non handicapped person who relies on mendicity has allowed poverty to monopolised his destiny. – Elijah Onyenmeriogu
- Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don’t need God as much. – Joni Eareckson Tada
- New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises ‘Why then are you not taking part in them? – HG Wells
- Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. – Camille Paglia
- We shall never arrive at true meekness by any other way than by humiliating ourselves and by honoring others from the depth of our hearts. – John Calvin
- It seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for His entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism. – Philip Yancey
- In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus is never unkind to the weak. He treats Martha with humiliating honesty, just as he would treat the male disciples. – Kate Cooper
- Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere. – Albert Bigelow Paine
- It is dehumanizing, demeaning and humiliating when you fail or refuse to acknowledge or respond to a Good Morning greeting. #Mannerism – Adeagbo Caleb Adewumi
- Isn’t it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones. – LM Montgomery
- If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God. – Augustine of Hippo
- No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child – Thomas Burnett Swann
- I knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that adults in my life didn’t know anymore than I did. – Matthew Quick
- It’s only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. – Maurice Sendak
- Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children. – Kelli Jae Baeli
- Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths – Neil Gaiman
- If children instead of adults would have contolled the world, then the world would have become a better place. – Abrar Ahmed chowdhury
- It is not logical that millions of modern adults and children around the world are suddenly becoming insulin resistant – John M Poothullil