95 quotes found
“Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters ar...”
“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
“We use Halloween to scare the kids and bankers to scare the adults.”
“Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say tell the truth, and when you do, they dont believe you. Whats the point?”
“One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room...”
“Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities.”
“Let's teach that loving isn't always loving. Like when you loved the hamster so much that it died. Some adults do that too. Too much, the wrong way. These are 'Stay away' zones on your body. These ...”
“If you're adult enough to have sex, you're adult enough to talk about your feelings.”
“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 knoc...”
“A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.”
“You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adults.''''Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,'' Teresa replied. ''Only they get along just ...”
“Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.”
“Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable ...”
“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!”
“The life I chose when I promised my six-year-old self never to forget being a child, never to grow frightened and dishonest like the grownups I saw, nodding politely to each other without affection...”
“I would like to do more in appreciating the mindset of the child. Maybe it has something to do with taking ourselves very seriously and with great disregard, as well as having a healthy does of awe...”
“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 ever...”
“Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you.”
“It is the mystery of the unknownThat fascinates us; we are children stillWayward and wistful; with one hand we clingTo the familiar things we call our own,And with the other, resolute of will,Grope...”
