Adults Quote by Anonymous

Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone number that…

— Erich Kastner

Adults are obsolete children.

— Dr. Seuss

“Children become adults who become children again.”

— Kristin Hannah

“Children are not like us. They are beings apart: impenetrable, unapproachable. They inhabit not our world but a world we have lost and can…

— Penelope Lively

“To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.”

— Perry Nodelman

“Children are no longer being parented, but are raised. Thats why they don't have morals, ethics,humanity and manners, because their parents neglected them. We…

— D.J. Kyos

“A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each…

— Mikhail Lermontov

“what use is a childhood?”

— Donald Revell

“Old age is the new childhood.”

— Hanif Kureishi

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

— Randall Jarrell

“Children retain a great deal, and when they grow up they start going over things and rejudging them from a grownup's point of view.…

— Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not…

— Billy Graham