A Quote by A. N. Wilson

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

A. N. Wilson

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A. N. Wilson
English - Writer
Born: October 27, 1950

Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

Alfred Noyes

I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like. Grown-ups behaved rationally and calmly. Grown-ups worked during the day and came home at night and sat down for drinks and passed the evening quietly.

Caroline Knapp

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.

Anne Frank

Everyone things children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I've lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murder. Kids get away with it.

Jennifer L. Holm

With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of each other, a terror life obscures but never ceases to justify. There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

If you`re wondering how you`ll find time, it means you don`t really want to read. Because nobody`s ever got time. Children certainly haven`t, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. <...> Time to read is always time stolen. <...> Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living.”- p.125

Daniel Pennac

It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.

Jill Paton Walsh

People like to make children into little grown-ups.

Mara Wilson

Children succeed when grown-ups care about them.

Chris Meledandri

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

Aristophanes

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

C. S. Lewis

Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.

Jonathan Kozol

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

Link Wray

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

Alison Gopnik

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