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.
When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.
She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.
It seemed to him harder, as he got older, to find a simple way of life.
The problem with a man is, he is no more a child.
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.
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.
It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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...
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.
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...
Grown-ups always say that things are complicated.