Source: The Eyre Affair
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
On writing for adults, as quoted in Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel (1997) by Thomas Fensch, p. 96
“Adults should strive to be more like children.”
Lorin Morgan-Richards (1975) American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer
Speaking at Women's march in Los Angeles (21 January 2017).
Osamu Tezuka (1928–1989) Japanese cartoonist and animator
From the intervention to the fifteenth national conference on school health and safety in schools , 1987; quoted in AA.VV., Osamu Tezuka: A Manga Biography , vol. 2, translated by Marta Fogato, Coconino Press, Bologna, 2001, p. 79. ISBN 8888063072
“Children like to work, and are always eager to imitate the work of adults.”
Georgi Plekhanov (1856–1918) Russian revolutionary
Utopian Socialism in the Nineteenth Century, 1913, Ch. 5.
“Adults must remember that they look like insane giants to children.”
Irving Fiske (1908–1990) American writer
Attributed without citation in Isabella Fiske McFarlin, et al., "Free The Kids! and Quarry Hill Community" http://search.proquest.com/openview/e76b1d1a966283049dcf60bcb9386c4d/1, Journal of Psychohistory, Vol. 21 No. 1 (Summer 1993), p. 21
“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”
Peter de Vries (1910–1993) American editor and novelist
Subcomandante Marcos (1957) Mexican activist
"I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet" http://www.csuchico.edu/zapatist/HTML/Archive/Communiques/etaJAN.html January, 2003
“Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?”
Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor
As quoted in MarilynManson.com (2000).
2000s
“Maybe it’s like being a parent, you never really see your children as adults.”
Genevieve Cogman (1972) novelist and game designer
Source: The Burning Page (2016), Chapter 12 (p. 145)
Context: Maybe it’s like being a parent,” she said, bringing up a Library map. “You never really see your children as adults. “You’re exaggerating,” Kai said, with the easy confidence of someone who hadn’t tested the issue yet.
