The purpose of college, to put this all another way, is to turn adolescents into adults. You needn't go to school for that, but if you're going to be there anyway, then that's the most important thing to get accomplished. That is the true education: accept no substitutes. The idea that we should take the first four years of young adulthood and devote them to career preparation alone, neglecting every other part of life, is nothing short of an obscenity. If that's what people had you do, then you were robbed. And if you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you were at the beginning - the same beliefs, the same values, the same desires, the same goals for the same reasons - then you did it wrong. Go back and do it again.

— William Deresiewicz

There are no problems. Just strange situations we have to deal with, as adults we are.

— Dionisis Agelakis

There was something scary about watching adults sleep. It was as if no one at all were in charge of the world.

— Kate DiCamillo

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

— Peter De Vries

The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world.

— Catherine Lacey

This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes.

— E. Nesbit

Though the children did not know Kevin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they did not feel towards him any of that strange shyness and antagonism so often felt by children towards grown-up people who 'pretend,' which causes them to suffer as painfully. Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

— Leo Tolstoy

We are not sure what we will become, only what we want to and don’t want to. We often become what we never thought we could, then we become fine with that.

— Darnell Lamont Walker

We use Halloween to scare the kids and bankers to scare the adults.

— Anthony T Hincks

When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the whole world to see.

— Yōko Ogawa