Adults Quote by Neil Gaiman

“I am. A child is helpless; I think it is the betrayal that destroys them. But a grownup is – usually – not helpless.…

— B.G. Harlen

Children force you to grow.

— Chevy Chase

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

— Kate Thompson

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

— Jane Smiley

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

— Nancy Atherton

As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.

— Mitch Albom

“it brings them to maturity and exercises no control over them;—”

— Laozi

Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and more an…

— Prentice Mulford

Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

— Gregory Maguire

Some people's developmental path has not equipped them to stand up and let go of something.

— Henry Cloud

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are…

— Anonymous

A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature…

— Henry Ward Beecher