Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten, and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation I would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me.

— Alison Bechdel

From what I can tell, the chief distinguishing factor between children and adults is that children hear everything while appearing not to and adults hear nothing while pretending to listen.

— Stephen McCauley

Generally it appears the case that, when faced with all life's problems, the baby, he wants to cry about everything, the child wants to question everything, the teenager wants to rebel against everything, the young adult wants to solve everything, the middle-aged adult wants to protect everything, and the elder wants to accept everything.

— Criss Jami

Give An African Child Or Adult A Enabled Environment And Proper Facilities Like In The West And See The Many Great Wonders That Would Be Manifested Through This Often Criticized Race. In My Own Case I Was More Fortunate, But Later Transformed From A Soft Heart Person To A Very Stubborn And Stone Heart Person To Enable Me Push On Through. All Those Who Knew Me Could Tell You Of Me Very Well Home And Abroad.

— Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependence for reverence.

— Toni Morrison

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-Exupéry

He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

— Yōko Ogawa

I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?

— John Green

I catch sight of Janice. Her eyes are so full of excitement that I half expect her to jump up and down. This is something she'll never forget, I tell myself. As an old lady with all the spirit knocked out of her and nobody believe in she'll remember a happy day in July when a horny young guy strutted his stuff and made her heart beat fast.

— Eric Bishop-Potter