
“You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes—you'll see.”
Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 356
Source: The Memory of Water
“You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes—you'll see.”
Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 356
“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
Misattributed
Source: Abraham Sutzkever (born 1913), quoted in "Yiddish Poet Celebrates Life with His Language" by Joseph Berger, The New York Times (1985-03-17), Section 1, page 38.
1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912), Chapter 7, p. 114
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Context: Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all — the whole world — had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are — when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.