The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Peter De VriesTags: children marriage parenting maturity aging adults
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryTags: philosophy children the-little-prince antoine-de-saint-exupery adults
Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties were done we were give "permission" to read. In other words, our elders positioned reading as a privilege - a much sought-after prize, granted only to those goodhardworkers who earned it. How clever of them.
Mildred Armstrong KalishTags: reading read privilege chores prize permission adults behavior elders duties modification
That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you are an adult...then comes suspicion, hatred, and fear. If children ran the world, it would be a place of eternal bliss and cheer. Adults run the world; and there is war, and enmity, and destruction unending. Adults who take charge of things muck them up, and then produce a new generation of children and say, "The children are the hope of the future." And they are right. Children are the hope of the future. But adults are the damnation of the present, and children become adults as surely as adults become worm food.
Adults are the death of hope.
Tags: love peace children war childhood hatred trust adulthood leadership maturity adults suspicion distrust
... there had been the two little boys. Now they were gone, too. They loved her and called her and sent her e-mails and would still snuggle up to her to be petted when they were in the mood, but they were men, and though they would always be at the center of her life, she was no longer at the center of theirs.
Cathleen SchineEnder understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.
Orson Scott CardOh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
Stephen KingTags: childhood horror stephen-king adults it pennywise grownups bill
Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.
Jude MorganTags: adults
Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?
Rick RiordanOne may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.
Michael EndeTags: wisdom literature childhood children-s-books good-sense adults children-s
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