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This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence. -- Ian Mcewan
Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard. -- Arthur J. Deikman
Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall. -- Anna Quindlen
It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections.... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren. -- Eda LeShan
With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with a greater degree of honesty than was possible before. In getting older themselves, our adult children may begin to comprehend the burdens and strengths we carried from our own parents. -- Wendy Lustbader
Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking. -- Meg Wolitzer
I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a person rather than a baby, and I was around so many actors and directors from such a young age because my dad is an actor. I was more comfortable with adults rather than actually being an adult child. -- Saoirse Ronan
Adults are obsolete children. -- Dr. Seuss
Adults are just outdated children. -- Dr. Seuss
Adults under threat feel like children. -- Martha Beck
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children. -- Usher
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. -- Jessamyn West
Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. -- Martha Beck
Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults? -- Marilyn Manson
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility. -- Dexter Fletcher
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. -- Peter De Vries
I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems. -- Beverly Cleary
Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children. -- Mason Cooley
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. -- Lois Lowry
In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children. -- Donna Shalala
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. -- Thomas Szasz
Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded. -- Tom G. Palmer
Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults. -- Bobby McFerrin
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. -- Peter De Vries
There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books. -- Garth Nix
Children need adult men in their lives. -- Emily Yoffe
I wanted to make an adult vampire film, not something for children. -- Alexandra Cassavetes
She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win. -- Neil Gaiman
Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults? -- Marilyn Manson
I have a natural affinity with children and adults who cant accept adult responsibility. -- Dexter Fletcher
Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. -- Neil Gaiman
I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time. -- Rachel Cusk
To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them. -- William Steig
I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it. -- Gretchen Rubin
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. -- Margaret Mead
children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children. -- Nan Fairbrother
Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature. -- Eleanor Catton
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children. -- John DiMaggio
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. -- Germaine Greer
There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch. -- Edmund de Waal
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were. -- Neil Gaiman
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children. -- Guy Laliberte
I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all! -- Lindsay Lohan
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. -- Jean Baudrillard
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis. -- Barbara Walters
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book. -- Philip Pullman
Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children. -- Marcus du Sautoy
If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book. -- Peter Jackson
I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries. -- Willie Aames
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. -- Mark Haddon
Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors. -- Mara Wilson
In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who you might know. -- Marie Rutkoski
My first work in comics had an Adult theme and I had to create a nom du plume to separate that work and my Children's entertainment. -- Holly Golightly
I love nothing better than a dirty cartoon. I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children. -- John DiMaggio
I cannot overemphasize the impact our childhood has on our ability to be honest because we live out what we learned as children in our adult relationships. -- Cortney S. Warren
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives. -- Nancy Pearcey
Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book. -- Maureen Johnson
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that? -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull. -- Mal Peet
On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to the adult mind. -- Miranda Neville
If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again. -- Diane Ackerman
Making a transition to the adult acting industry was pretty smooth for me, and I had a great balance and a great opportunity not to do just children shows. -- Raven Goodwin
A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children. -- Philip K. Dick
Then turn your eyes back on me,and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects. -- V.C. Andrews

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