„Romance gathers round an old story like lichen on an old branch. And the story of Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard is so old now — some say a year old, some say even two. How can the children be expected to remember?“

„Childhood may be defined as the age of play; therefore some children are never young, and some adults are never old.“

—  Will Durant American historian, philosopher and writer 1885 - 1981

Источник: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 1 : Our life begins

„People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.“

—  Craig Ferguson Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice artist 1962

„What gives me grounds for optimism is that this is the only country on the face of the Earth where if you tell a 10-year-old kid, "You can't do" something and it strikes him as absurd, a 10-year-old kid looks up and says "It's a free country." This is the only nation on Earth whose children say "It's a free country."“

—  Alan Charles Kors American academic 1943

It's going to take a whole lot to root that out of the American spirit.
2010s, Who's too Weak to Live with Freedom? (2013)

„It takes a heap o’ children to make a home that’s true,
And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;
But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,
Why, that’s the sort of good old home for good old me and you.“

—  Louis Untermeyer American poet 1885 - 1977

Mother Goose Up-to-date
Other

„Oh, God, children are children, old women are old women, and nothing in between. They can’t imagine a change they can’t see.“

—  Ray Bradbury, книга Dandelion Wine

Источник: Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 74

„I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children!“

—  Nicole Kidman Australian-American actress and film producer 1967

In an interview in early 2004

„Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but not very far. That is why it is possible for 14 year olds now to establish friendships with 26 year olds - because they know by the age of 14 all they are ever going to know.“

—  Theodore Dalrymple English doctor and writer 1949

Frontpage Magazine interview (August 31, 2005).

„Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.“

—  Junot Díaz, книга The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Источник: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

„Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.“

—  Orson Scott Card, книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game

„Whatever is common to children of a given age is set up as the fundamental character of that age. The fact that three-year-old children are quite often negative is considered evidence that negativism is inherent in the nature of three-year-olds, and the concept of a negative age or stage is then regarded as an explanation for the appearance of negativism.“

—  Kurt Lewin German-American psychologist 1890 - 1947

Источник: 1930s, The conflict between Aristotelian and Galileian modes of thought in contemporary psychology, 1931, p. 153 as cited in: Eells, T. D. (2007). " Generating and generalizing knowledge about psychotherapy from pragmatic case studies http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/journals/index.php/pcsp/article/viewFile/893/2263". In: Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Vol 3, Nr. 1, p. 35-54.

„Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.“

—  Eckhart Tolle German writer 1948

Источник: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

„We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.“

—  Erich Maria Remarque, книга All Quiet on the Western Front

Источник: All Quiet on the Western Front

„The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.“

—  Malcolm Bradbury English author and academic 1932 - 2000

Rates of Exchange, part 5, ch. 3.

„There’s a thing the children say.
—What do the children say?
—They say: Will you always love me?
—Always.
—Will you always remember me?
—Always.
—Will you remember me a year from now?
—Yes, I will.
—Will you remember me two years from now?
—Yes, I will.
—Will you remember me five years from now?
—Yes, I will.
—Knock, knock.
—Who’s there?
—You see?“

—  Donald Barthelme American writer, editor, and professor 1931 - 1989

“Great Days”, conclusion.
Great Days (1979)

„"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.“

—  L. Frank Baum, книга The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1902)

„Some, in their curiosity, will say, "But you Mormons have another Bible! Do you believe in the Old and New Testaments?" I answer we do believe in the Old and New Testaments, and we have also another book, called the Book of Mormon. What are the doctrines of the Book of Mormon? The same as those of the Bible…"What good does it do you, Latter-day Saints?" It proves that the Bible is true. What do the infidel world say about the Bible? They say that the Bible is nothing better than last year's almanack; it is nothing but a fable and priestcraft, and it is good for nothing. The Book of Mormon, however, declares that the Bible is true, and it proves it; and the two prove each other true. The Old and New Testaments are the stick of Judah. You recollect that the tribe of Judah tarried in Jerusalem and the Lord blessed Judah, and the result was the writings of the Old and New Testaments. But where is the stick of Joseph? Can you tell where it is? Yes. It was the children of Joseph who came across the waters to this continent, and this land was filled with people, and the Book of Mormon or the stick of Joseph contains their writings, and they are in the hands of Ephraim. Where are the Ephraimites? They are mixed through all the nations of the earth. God is calling upon them to gather out, and He is uniting them, and they are giving the Gospel to the whole world. Is there any harm or any false doctrine in that? A great many say there is. If there is, it is all in the Bible.“

—  Brigham Young Latter Day Saint movement leader 1801 - 1877

Journal of Discourses 13:174-175 (May 29, 1870)
1870s

„So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses…. That proves something — that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.“

—  Harper Lee, книга To Kill a Mockingbird

Pt. 2, ch. 16
Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

„Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don’t do that. I treat the child as an equal.“

—  Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991

„I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years.“

—  Yvette Cooper British politician 1969

On why she did not nominate herself to become Leader of the Labour Party, during BBC's Today Programme http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00v6by4/Profile_Yvette_Cooper_Shadow_Foreign_Secretary, May, 2010.