The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.
Quotes about grown-ups (16 Quotes)
In the third stage of adult-hood, intelligent attention has to be paid not only to one's own advancement and the advancement of the family and society but also to the advancement of the people generally. That too is the responsibility of the grown-ups and they must acquire the skills necessary. They must have wider visions of the peace and prosperity of all mankind, and try to contribute to both, within the limits of their capacity and resources.
The worst kind of children are grown-ups.
Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.
When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be 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.
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.
I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.
Where do babies come from Don't bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation have yielded fruitful, if tentative, results. There are several theories. Near as we can figure out, it has something to do with acting ridiculous in the dark. We believe it is similar to dogs when they act peculiar and ride each other. This is called making love. Careful study of popular song lyrics, advertising catch-lines, TV sitcoms, movies, and T-Shirt inscriptions offers us significant clues as to its nature. Apparently it makes grown-ups insipid and insane. Some graffiti was once observed that said sex is good. All available evidence, however, points to the contrary.
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.
The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies.
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.