“There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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“Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.”
“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”
“Adults must remember that they look like insane giants to children.”
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

“Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?”
As quoted in MarilynManson.com (2000).
2000s

Mr Brown's self-esteem issue - or, asks Theodore Dalrymple, does Gordon Brown really believe that he can solve the problems of the world? http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001326.php (January 24, 2007).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)
Source: The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to Present

As quoted in Bowron, Aurisch, Supan, Künste (2000). Romantics, realists, revolutionaries: masterpieces of 19th-century German painting from the Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig. Prestel. p. 158