There are good books which are only for adults.There are no good books which are only for children.
– WH Auden
Related Quotes:
- Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too. – William Faulkner
- The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. – Peter De Vries
- I talk to children like adults and to adults like children. – Bryant McGill
- Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive. – Tim Relf
- Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics. – Stephen King
- Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they’re more of an example to young people than adults books are. – Laura Kreitzer
- Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history. – Edna Ferber
- Reviewing bad books is bad for the character -“ WH Auden – Harold Bloom
- The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world. – Catherine Lacey
- From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal. – Alephonsion Deng
- It’s only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. – Maurice Sendak
- It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults. – Darren Shan
- Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what’s right. – Stefan Emunds
- I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn’t we embrace such simple joys? – John Shors
- Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. – Neil Gaiman
- The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it. – Frank Warren
- Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children. – Kelli Jae Baeli
- Very young children often accept the paranormal as -œnormal- until adults squeeze it out them. – Doug Dillon
- All adults should strive to be more like children. – Lorin MorganRichards
- God gave us our children so we could prepare them to become adults. – Billy Graham
- I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies… – Neil Gaiman
- Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths – Neil Gaiman
- Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that’s something we should continue doing. – Ashley Ormon
- More silence; children’s silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs. – Zadie Smith
- She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them. – Rebecca West
- Meditation is good for the elderly, great for adults, even greater for children, and greater still for pregnant women. So, meditate and be well. – Abhijit Naskar
- Adults are nothing more than decadent children. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- If children instead of adults would have contolled the world, then the world would have become a better place. – Abrar Ahmed chowdhury
- I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults. – Bren Brown
- Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
- Adults follow paths. Children explore. – Neil Gaiman
- It is not logical that millions of modern adults and children around the world are suddenly becoming insulin resistant – John M Poothullil
- Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. – Dr Seuss
- There is nothing romantic about childhood. Children can enjoy their childhood only if the adults create the necessary atmosphere. – Sadghuru
- Children with less opportunities often become adults with more flexibility. – MSriteja
- A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest. – CS Lewis
- I’ve got a pretty good idea what children are, and we’re not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. – Orson Scott Card
- Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. – CS Lewis
- Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books. – Theodore Roosevelt
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter