Ability Quote by Michael Leunig

A lot of times, adults confuse growing up or becoming more mature with a sense of seriousness, a sense of boringness, a sense of…

— Andrew W.K

Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.

— Jonathan Kozol

When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.

— Rene Redzepi

I know how messy things can get when adults overstep their boundaries and insert themselves - their politics, their fears, their prejudices, their ignorance…

— Janet Mock

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“And yet there’s nothing to understand. The problem is that children believe what adults say and, once they’re adults themselves, they exact their revenge…

— Muriel Barbery

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their…

— Alan Watts

As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are…

— Kenneth Grahame

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

— Robert Charles Wilson

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things dont exist than to talk about them.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.

— Roddy Doyle

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age

— Barbara Park