Children Quote by Linda Kage

“It's so strange: grown-ups trying to become young, young ones trying to grow up and all the time, whatever people want, time moves forward,…

— Anonymous

“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

“Oh hours of childhood, when behind each shape more than the past appeared and what streamed out before us was not the future. We…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”

— Nick Joaquín

“I had been very grown-up when I was in primary school. But as I continued through secondary-school, I in fact became less grown-up. And…

— Hiroki Kawakami

“Not everybody gets to grow up. First you have to survive your childhood, and then begins the hard work of growing into it.”

— Gail Godwin

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

— Charles Finch

“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.”

— John Boyne

“Maybe I grew up too fast, maybe that's my trouble. I feel so lost out here...hung up between two worlds; half-kid and half-adult, half-boy…

— Ann Bannon

“I was grown up long before the grown ups were the grown ups.”

— Aporva Kala

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

“We were stuck between the blissful ignorance of childhood and the cold, hard truth of adulthood. The”

— Carina Adams