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“Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.”

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Author:Eugene Ionesco

“A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.”

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Author:John B. S. Haldane

“Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”

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Book:Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.”

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Author:Sara Shandler

“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”

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Author:Jean Kerr

“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.”

Inspirational Children Has Beens Term Company Issues Adults Mere

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Kids Taught Adults

Author:Mario Batali

“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.”

“Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.”

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Author:Virginia Satir

“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”

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Author:John Updike

“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.”

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Author:Peter De Vries

“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.”

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval.”

“The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.”

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Author:Mem Fox

“Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions.”

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Author:John Green

“A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does”

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Author:Lewis Blaine Hershey

“Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.”