Nature Quote by John Green

“There were two kinds of adults: There were Peter Van Houtens—miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then…

— John Green

“I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were Peter Van Houtens--miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to…

— John Green

“Adults never explained anything. They saw children as akin to small animals, creatures who had to be tugged and beaten into adulthood before they…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“All this bunch of so-called 'adults' was doing was making enemies of one another when what they really needed to be concentrating on was…

— Jonathan L. Howard

“The notion of this powerful childhood gaze was all the more specious given that adults, in the name of that very spontaneity, subjected chidren…

— Jean-Christophe Valtat

“But I can tell you the reason for me being so youthful-looking for a man a century and a half old. I’m not exactly…

— Nancy A. Collins

“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

“Who was it who said childhood was a thing that ruined everyone's life? Why was it, I wondered, that the human species spent their…

— Wendy Jean

“Perhaps it is true that for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind as forever 18.”

— Vikram Seth

“It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults, and what…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“A vast mirror hung above his desk, its gilt frame a horror of twisted vines and sharp leaves, angry looking foliage. I thought of…

— Susan Power

“There were only six adults in the oldest picture,and all of them looked really serious,like they'd probably kicked kittens for fun.”

— Rachel Hawkins