Childhood Quote by Anonymous

“I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world…

— Brock Clarke

“Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world,..They see more than adults, believe in more, are honest and will…

— Cecelia Ahern

“Becoming an adult is all about accepting that you didn't know anything when you were a kid.”

— Andrew Sturm

“When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don’t really know what they mean.”

— William Faulkner

“I mention this because there is the question of how children become aware of what the world is, and how to act in it.…

— Elizabeth Strout

“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.”

— John Boyne

“Also everywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and…

— Emma Donoghue

“Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside, they look…

— Neil Gaiman

I'm lucky; my parents have never said to me, "You're a kid, so you just don't know." They say, "How can we discuss the…

— Yara Shahidi

“Honestly. Adults. How do they live in the world? (Or maybe that is how they live in the world.)”

— Patrick Ness

“I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.”

— Karen White

“With kids, what you see is what you get. There's just truth in their innocence that we as adults have lost and will never…

— Michelle Figley