(70 quotes found)
“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards”
George Orwell
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
H. G. Wells
“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”
Erich Fromm
“What is an adult? A child blown up by age.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.”
Margaret Mead
“We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."”
Sydney J. Harris
“If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business”
Ronald Reagan
“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
“In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.”
Socrates
“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in”
Rachel Carson
