Childhood Quote by John Boyne

“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.”

— Charles Finch

“...There is no such thing as grown ups...”

— Neil Gaiman

“Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.”

— China Miéville

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

— Karen White

“Our children, when young, are part of ourselves. When they grow up they are just other people.”

— Barbara Vine

“Yeah, but most of the time I think being an adult is not all it's cracked up to be. I've always wanted to postpone…

— Adrianne Noel

“As I get older I'm starting to sense that being a grown-up isn't nearly as much fun as children want to believe.”

— Wendy Mass

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

— Andrew Sturm

“I suppose that there's quite a difference between growing old and growing up.”

— Emory Sharplin

“Because we're grown-ups now, and its our turn to decide what that means.”

— XKCD

“We were still children, for all that we thought we weren’t. We were in that in-between place, the twilight between childish things and grown-up…

— Christina Henry

“We need strong, firm adults in our lives. And that those adults have to be us.”

— Heidi Priebe