Children Quote by Zadie Smith

“Children become adults who become children again.”

— Kristin Hannah

“Adults like to say that childhood passes quickly, that it's over in the blink of an eye. I can't agree. When you become an…

— Sergey Grechishkin

“When a child starts doing what’s right even though they don’t want to, that’s when he or she becomes an adult.”

— Ryan Winfield

“The idea of not being a kid anymore terrifies me. I am an adult and I have been hurled out of the world of…

— Kelley York

“As our kids get older and become adults themselves, there’s a stage we unknowingly pass, from which point forward our role as parents diminishes…

— K.L. Slater

“Children don't wait for you to spend time with them. They grow up with or without you.”

— Sharon Randall

“Children want to feel as though their life matters.”

— Asa Don Brown

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

“With improved coping skills forged through my midlife crisis, I now listen first and do not control, and I allow these now adult children…

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

“Children retain a great deal, and when they grow up they start going over things and rejudging them from a grownup's point of view.…

— Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

“Our children, when young, are part of ourselves. When they grow up they are just other people.”

— Barbara Vine

“Kids keep you young...But Christ, they make you feel old, too.”

— Nickolas Butler