The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.
Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.
She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.
When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.
It seemed to him harder, as he got older, to find a simple way of life.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
The problem with a man is, he is no more a child.
Miles: Well, things are kind of complicated right now. When you’re a grown-up, you’ll understand.Jonah: I don’t want to be a grown-up.Miles: Why not?Jonah: Because grown-ups always say that things are...
When he walked out into the lots to catch his horse, he felt grown and complete for the first time in his life.
I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.
It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
In our folk nobody has any experience of youth, there’s barely even any time for being a toddler. The children simply don’t have any time in which they might be children........Indeed... there’s simpl...
Why are you drinking? - the little prince asked.- In order to forget - replied the drunkard.- To forget what? - inquired the little prince, who was already feeling sorry for him.- To forget that I am...
Grown-ups always say that things are complicated.