{"quotes":[{"text":"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 forcefield.","author":"Paul Murray","tags":["adults","children","danger","safety"],"id":3820,"author_id":"Paul+Murray"},{"text":"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","adolescent","adolescents","adult","adulthood","adults","africa","african","ancient","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","child","children","dead","death","deep","dependence","dependent","develop","developing","development","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","existence","four-stages-of-life","funny","gnome","gnomes","grandparent","grandparents","grow","growing","growth","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","independence","independent","infant","infants","insightful","life","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","phase","phases","philosopher","prepubescent","process","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","retire","retired","retiree","retirees","retirement","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","senile","senility","south-africa","south-african","stage","stages","stages-of-life","teenage","teenager","teenagers","thought-provoking","thoughtful","young","youth","youths"],"id":6452,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"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.","author":"Michael Ende","tags":["adults","childhood","children-s","children-s-books","good-sense","literature","wisdom"],"id":9734,"author_id":"Michael+Ende"},{"text":"As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.","author":"Carew Papritz","tags":["adults","carew-papritz","child","quotes","the-legacy-letters"],"id":16473,"author_id":"Carew+Papritz"},{"text":"Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["adults","bill","childhood","grownups","horror","it","pennywise","stephen-king"],"id":18646,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"By exchanging quality time for 'turn-up' times, what many of today's wayward youngsters have become - men and women of the village have failed them.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["adults","failure","guidance","leadership","living-example","men","parenting","parents","wayward-youth","women","young-people"],"id":26614,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane,' he [Ed Ricketts] said. 'And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they would not think of following, speak truths they do not believe. And yet they expect children to obey the rules, believe the truths, and admire and respect their parents for this nonsense. Children must be very wise and secret to tolerate adults at all. And the greatest nonsense of all that adults expect children to believe is that people learn by experience. No greater lie was ever revered. And its falseness is immediately discerned by children since their parents obviously have not learned anything by experience. Far from learning, adults simply become set in a maze of prejudices and dreams and sets of rules whose origins they do not know and would not dare inspect for fear the whole structure might topple over on them. I think children instinctively know this,' Ed said. 'Intelligent children learn to conceal their knowledge and keep free of this howling mania.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["adults","children","education","experience","learning"],"id":47363,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"Children are being killed, because some 'adults' think life is a game.Something is amiss.When children shoot up other children in school, it's a national tragedy, and a week of mourning.When grown men are killing unarmed young, yes unarmed young, it bespeaks the leagues of fear residing in these men's hearts; that they've created a world in which they themselves have become useless.Then it makes front page, and it becomes business as usual.Something is amiss here.If adults don't truly grow up, then their young may never get the chance.","author":"Justin K. McFarlane Beau","tags":["2nd-childhood","adults","apartheid","children","genocide","holocaust","infanticide","selective-slaughter","stupidity","weakness","wickedness"],"id":54672,"author_id":"Justin+K.+McFarlane+Beau"},{"text":"[E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear.","author":"Emma Donoghue","tags":["adults","caring","children","cuteness","hypocrisy","kids","neglect","parents","pretense"],"id":59207,"author_id":"Emma+Donoghue"},{"text":"Adults are just making things up as they go along. And when they’re scared, adults have no more answers than us kids.","author":"Mike A. Lancaster","tags":["adults","kids","scared"],"id":61687,"author_id":"Mike+A.+Lancaster"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":96,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}