Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

Jane Yolen

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Jane Smiley

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Aristophanes

The old are in a second childhood.

Melissa Etheridge

I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.

Michelle Forbes

Pears are my favorite fruit! Reminds me of childhood.

Max Muller

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Maurice Sendak

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

Maurice Sendak

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

Hector Lopez

These are techniques to scare people, to weaken their intent.

Scott McCloud

This is not a scare tactic -- it's realistic. This is a devastating storm." ()

Ayn Rand

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Damien Woody

Did that out there (on the field) look like it would scare anybody? Why should it?

Abdallah II of Jordan

Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.

Tom Leonard

There's something drastically wrong. I think they know it, but they're scared to do anything about it.

Skip Mills

We just told him to keep shooting. You're really not going to make shots if you're scared and you don't want to keep shooting the ball. We kind of joked around with him telling him he's never going to make a shot again.

Donald Trump

You can't be scared. You do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens, happens.

Ann Brashares

He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.

Neil Gaiman

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

Mayim Bialik

I'm generally intimidated by adults.

Mark Leyner

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

Jeanette Winterson

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

Chris Hadfield

Don`t let life randomly kick you into the adult you don`t want to become

Gus Van Sant

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

Yehuda Berg

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.