Life Quote by Steven Erikson

“He was beginning to see how having a teenager might be the equivalent of having a bad class in permanent session.”

— Jean Thompson

“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The thing was, with parenting grown children, you had to learn to hold your tongue. If you wanted them to tell you anything, that…

— Joanna Trollope

“Can we please drop the whole ‘school starts tomorrow’ talk? I’d like to live in denial for a little while longer.”

— Aileen Erin

“You talk just like the grown-ups! That made me a little ashamed.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“What good is it to be a teenager if no one will listen to anything you say?”

— K.A. Holt

“Having people talk down to you is the absolute worst part about being a kid.”

— Matt Greene

“Becoming an adult is all about accepting that you didn't know anything when you were a kid.”

— Andrew Sturm

“If you couldn't say something honest and useful, then you kept your mouth shut.”

— Kit Rocha

“Right now, just speak gently your words of wisdom to the youngsters. Sooner or later, those words will arrive at the right place in…

— Toba Beta

“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

“When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things . . .”

— Emma Chase