"Adults remain children longer.
Unless there's money for agricultural college, sons never leave home and remain children to their mothers for ever.
One of the good things about this industry is that we are allowed to remain children, and Brendon is one of the biggest kids going.
So, as long as we remain children of the Declaration of Independence, this is conflict that will continue to divide Americans even as other "culture-war" issues fade from our collective memory.
Looking to return to the security of that metaphysically privileged time, some of us evade the responsibilities of freedom by choosing to remain children, that is, to submit to the authority of others.
The virtue of looking to a Darwinian view of nature as a source of wonder is something like Freud's suggestion that, whatever the difficulties of living within the bounds of our rationality, we must attempt, at least, do so: "[Human beings] cannot remain children for ever; they must in the end go out into 'hostile reality.' We may call this 'education to reality' " (Freud 1989, 717).
We're not raising children to remain children.
They'll remain children, indefinitely -- and not in a good way.
But we cannot remain children, standing on the shore or in front of the TV set".
I can't enjoy watching what happens to child stars who remain children their whole lives proclaim their obsessions for turtles or fishy faces.
It reveals a sky full of kites anchored in the hands of smart, inquisitive, ambitious kids who live with fear and still remain children at play, focused on creating things, finding hope in their choice to look up and see beauty.
