Adults Quote by Russell Baker

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

— Ellen Glasgow

I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was “Everything You Always…

— Drew Barrymore

When you get married and have your own family, it gives you the opportunity to look back on your own childhood I suppose, but…

— Jermaine Jenas

“It was one of the joys of childhood.”

— Markus Zusak

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

— Christina Ricci

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

— Joyce Maynard

Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity.…

— Eliphas Levi

So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on…

— George Eliot

Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him.

— Rick Warren

Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a…

— Janice Kaplan

Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,…

— Alice Miller

The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the…

— Zach Braff

Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

— Maria Montessori

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me…

— Jean Piaget

I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,…

— Jacques Lusseyran