Age-Specific Quotes

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Poppy does not identify with an age.

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

I don't think that a film that has children in it necessarily needs to be a children's film.

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.