„Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.“

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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„Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can’t explain them, and those who haven’t known them have no understanding of them at all.“
— Michael Ende
„Some mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.“
— Banksy
„The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.“
— Louisa May Alcott
„Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.“
— C.G. Jung
„Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.“
— Audre Lorde
„I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.“
— Anne Frank