Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
- Children
- Drug
- Adults
Compliant children are very easily led when they are young, because they thrive on approval and pleasing adults. They are just aseasily led in their teen years, because they still seek the same two things: approval and the pleasing their peers. Strong-willed children are never easily led by anybody--not by you, but also not by their peers. So celebrate your child's strength of will throughout the early years...and know that the independent thinking you are fostering will serve him well in the critical years to come.

Barbara Coloroso
- Thinking
- Children
- Strong
What is a child?" he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves.

Celia S. Friedman
- Children
- She
- Parents
To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.

Banana Yoshimoto
- Live
- Mean
- Ugly
Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.

Brian Tracy
- Goal
- Goals
- Three
Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.

Walt Disney
- People
- Life
- Up