Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive…

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend,…

— Jonathan Kozol

“Grown-ups are children who forgot how to fly.”

— Lobo

People like to make children into little grown-ups.

— Mara Wilson

We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

— Brené Brown

The gruel that children's little hands have stirredIs sweeter than nectar.

— Thiruvalluvar

Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as…

— Michael Leunig

I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When my children were little, always I had to explain things. Now they don't ask much more, have I become more stupid?”

— Hannu Vilponen

Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.

— Lauren Holly

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

— Mark Twain

“John, if you ever get a family, there’s one thing you should know. No matter how well you get along with your children when…

— John Holt

The most important thing you will ever give your children is a little of your time.

— Wes Fesler