“The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“I'm glad my condo was furnished. Because, how do you buy a couch? I have no idea. This grown-up thing isn’t for… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
The funny thing is while the grown-ups in the family may indulge, we really try to offer our son Duke clean food,… — Bill Rancic Copy Share Image
Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
Children go from being a kind of cultural protectorate to the Junior Auxiliary of the tube-watching nation at large, and programs are… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday… — Shawn Levy Copy Share Image
“She loved the cemetery because it was quiet and beautiful. Grown-ups argued so much when they were alive. No one argued when… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“Why are you drinking? - the little prince asked. - In order to forget - replied the drunkard. - To forget what?… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“There will always be those who say you are too young and delicate to make anything happen for yourself. They don't see… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
'Monuments Men' is a movie... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if… — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
I started performing at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The entrepreneurs are only about my age, probably younger, but they don't seem so. Their tailored clothes and unbending hairdos, their clipboards… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like.… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
“They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?' Instead,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
