(70 quotes found)
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
Dr. Seuss
“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas”
Paula Poundstone
“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
Sigmund Freud
“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
“Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.”
Walt Disney
“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 sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child.”
Albert Einstein
“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
“Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.”
G. K. Chesterton
