Aunts and uncles Quote by W.H. Auden

“Both were rather precocious, and like many precocious young people they found it hard to grow up.”

— Haruki Murakami

“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

“Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us…

— Miguel Syjuco

“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”

— Nick Joaquín

“My mother always said that childish and childlike were two entirely different concepts.” “Words to live by.”

— ReGina Welling

“When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don’t really know what they mean.”

— William Faulkner

“Learning to be an adult was learning that your best was rarely quite enough.”

— Jennifer duBois

“Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside, they look…

— Neil Gaiman

“I had been very grown-up when I was in primary school. But as I continued through secondary-school, I in fact became less grown-up. And…

— Hiroki Kawakami

“Adults who believe in the Little Adult Assumption are going to rely heavily on words and reasons in trying to change the behavior of…

— Thomas W. Phelan

“I always intended to grow up with my kids, not old with them.”

— Trevor David Dawson

“Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again”

— Antoine de Saint Exupéry