Adults Quote by Jan Hunt

When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost…

— Anonymous

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

— Nicolas Chamfort

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

— Franz Grillparzer

They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what…

— Anonymous

“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time…

— Ian McEwan

“Many people feel like they were born into the wrong family. Nevertheless, adults must take responsiblity for the pain of the past and create…

— James P. Krehbiel

The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

— Alice Miller

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of…

— George Eliot

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is…

— Margaret Atwood

The burdens of childhood are as hard to bear as the crosses that weigh us down later in life, while the happinesses of childhood…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“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

Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from,…

— Darren Shan