(63 quotes found)
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
Dr. Seuss
“To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
Sigmund Freud
“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas”
Paula Poundstone
“Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.”
Erma Bombeck
“Adults are obsolete children.”
“I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were clueless goobers.”
Dave Barry
“A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.”
Fran Lebowitz
“Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in”
Mark Twain
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