# Quote — Russell Baker, Growing Up

> Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity there is no parent left to tell them.

- Author: [Russell Baker](https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-baker.md)
- Book: [Growing Up](https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-baker/growing-up.md)
- Page: 13
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Russell_Baker#Growing_Up_(1982)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-baker/growing-up/children-rarely-want

## More from this book

> At the age of five I had become a skeptic and began to sense that any happiness that came my way might be the prelude to some grim cosmic joke.

p. 81 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-baker/growing-up/at-the-age.md)

> ​So far as I could make out, what writers did couldn't even be classified as work.

p. 26 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-baker/growing-up/so-far-as-i-could.md)

> He looked upon the time that had been my future in a disturbing way. My future was his past, and being young, he was indifferent to the past.

p. 14 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-baker/growing-up/he-looked-upon.md)