Quotes Tagged "adults"

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s 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 door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

Когато срещна улицата дете, което се усмихва, мисля си: а защо се усмихва? Ща не ща и аз ще му се усмихвам и по-тъжно си мисля: а ние възрастните защо не се усмихваме един на друг?

We have to stick together like peanut butter & jelly. We have to look out for each other. Most of all, we have to look out for our youth.

...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finally catch on that the only transaction that matters is a transfer of useful information from adults who possess it to children who do not, and that catching mistakes is a criminal misuse of time.

Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.