Adults Quote by Catherine Lacey

“For there comes a time in life when the pity previously reserved only for children takes on a different form, a time when we…

— Irène Némirovsky

“[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in…

— Nancy E. Turner

“Oh hours of childhood, when behind each shape more than the past appeared and what streamed out before us was not the future. We…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“It turned out that the only difference between children and adults was that children were prepared to put twice the energy into the project…

— Chris Cleave

“As our kids get older and become adults themselves, there’s a stage we unknowingly pass, from which point forward our role as parents diminishes…

— K.L. Slater

“We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it.”

— Chuck Klosterman

“The fragile and ancient hurt that seeps out of adults when they speak of wronged childhoods.”

— Martin Roper

“It's time we allow our youth to de tangle life with ease.”

— Judy Specht

“It never stops, you know. Every time your child fails to reach another milestone you mourn all over again for what might have been.…

— Chris Collett

“Underneath, people sometimes remain the same they were as children. Other times, events tear and hurt, twist and reshape so deeply there’s no way…

— Ernie Wood

“He feels sorry for young people; their world is very much rougher than his had been. He is already at the age where he…

— T.K. Lamb

“We often don't realize the passing of years until we see them in a child.”

— Chris Burkmenn