Parenting Quote by Emma Straub

“Humans were complicated. Parents especially so.”

— Alisha Rai

“WE WERE kids - but good kids. If I may say so myself. We're much smarter now, so smart it's pathetic.”

— Nescio

“I believe that many children are born with an inquisitive mind, the mind of a scientist, and I assume that I became a scientist…

— William Lanouette

“His child was now officially smarter than he was, and he didn’t like it.”

— Kristan Higgins

“The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately; they talk to the heart.”

— Hain Ginott

“Parents were what they were; it was not up to you to try to puzzle them out.”

— Katherine Paterson

“Grant liked kids—it was impossible not to like any group so openly enthusiastic about dinosaurs. Grant used to watch kids in museums as they…

— Michael Crichton

“I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers are despised.”

— Tess Gerritsen

“I’m not smarter than you, I’m more knowledgeable than you, and that’s only because I’m older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“You had hoped that smarter creatures would be wiser ones.”

— Peter Watts

“The most sophisticated people I know--inside they're all children. We never really loose a certain sense we had when we were kids.”

— Jim Henson

“The thought that babies would become children, and children would become people, never occurred to them. The concept that perhaps biology was not destiny,…

— Seanan McGuire