Adults Quote by Melba Pattillo Beals

“All the adults I knew buried the knowledge beneath lying smiles and hugs. I was still stuck in my own world... Looking back, I…

— Alexandra Bracken

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

— Karen White

“I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world…

— Brock Clarke

“We were strangers under the same roof. We were perfect pretenders in the stage of the world.”

— Ranjani Ramachandran

“Adults are good at pretending to have things figured out, but we rarely do.”

— Toby Neighbors

“It isn't only that we know less than we pretend about the outside world; we don't even know ourselves all that well.”

— Steven D. Levitt

“When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.”

— Rumer Godden

“I watched the kids walking past us on the sidewalk. They looked pretty much like any other kids. They were dressed for each other.…

— Robert B. Parker

“It was interesting, how much of adult life consisted of pretending.”

— Kevin Canty

“like most people, they know one another inside out, and not at all.”

— Penelope Lively

“That's the thing about people you loved. They disappeared on you. I didn't know much at the ripe old age of fifteen and a…

— Jerry Stahl

“You of all people know better than to dwell on what could have been.”

— Charles Soule