Adults Quote by Katherine Dunn

“It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to…

— Katherine Dunn

We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

— LZ Granderson

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

— Gertrude Atherton

Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore.

— James Watkins

Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things…

— Carlos Fuentes

Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

“Safety and innocence don't exist in nature. Childhood is a social construct, an ideological fever dream afforded by those whose mothers call miracles rather…

— Sung Yim

Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.

— Nancy Atherton

“This, you see, is the danger of children: they are ambushes, each and every one of them. A person may look at someone else's…

— Seanan McGuire

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

— Anonymous