“Kids and Adults – Growing Up”
“There is no scientific theory of the universe that sufficiently answers the question, ‘Who entrusted to me this child.” (Robert Brault, Round Up the Usual Subjects)
“[Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” (Jim Henson, It’s Not Easy Being Green: and Other Things to Consider)
“Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren’t any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.” (Neil Gaiman)
“The clash between child and adult is never so stubborn as when the child in us confronts the adult in our child.” (Robert Brault, Round Up the Usual Subjects)
“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.” (Margaret Mead)
“It’s funny, isn’t it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.” (Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall)
“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.” (Paula Poundstone)
“’My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads.’
‘Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?’ they asked me the other day.
I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, ‘Look at me…I’m tall, and I’m straight, and I’m handsome. Look at you…you’re all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.’ And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, ‘Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.’ So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.” (Tom Waits)
“When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.” (Lily Tomlin)
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