One of my Secrets of Adulthood is: Most decisions don't require extensive research. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. — G K Chesterton Copy Share Image
You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it? — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
When I came into my adulthood, I recognized how fortunate I was to be doing what I loved to do. — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood. — Becky Freeman Copy Share Image
“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was… — Dillon Lane Copy Share Image
Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it,… — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood...who suddenly… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
“To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If you manage to make it to some semblance of adulthood, just showing up turns out to be one of the kindest,… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
“That was the problem, wasn't it? You left home. But you never did become an adult. Not really. You just fucked up… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“My lofty ambitions are partially due to the fact that I'm part of generation, "Yes You Can, I Guess: How about I… — Alida Nugent Copy Share Image
Just go to Disneyland. You have the impact of how the Americans think, how they dream, what they desire, how they have… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you," he said abruptly, "that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat… — John Green Copy Share Image
Realization that i couldn't be a ballet dancer was a blessing in disguise because that was the first time I felt like… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“Bloom of adulthood. Try a whiff of that. On your back in the dark you remember. Ah you remember. Cloudless May day.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Adulthood has its own way of helping you realize who is important in your life. — Crystal Yang Copy Share Image
'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood. — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
“Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It was quite a blow to have my perfect image of my father shattered, but that's something we all face before we… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“They were all in agreement that adulthood could, and should, be fun.” — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably,… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
“A felnőttség a csalódás eredménye. Ahogy múlik az élet, az embernek le kell mondania ifjúsága reményeiről, álmairól, vágyairól, s egyre inkább úgy… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Interesting, Miles thought. Like himself, Father Mark, as a child, had been reassured by the imagined proximity of God, whereas adults, perhaps… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“In Your Early Years people Tell You, Correct You and Forgive You. But when you become an Adult, they Neither Correct you… — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams.… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“My little boy was no more and even though he'd come home for vacations, our relationship would never be quite the same.… — Sallyann Murphey Copy Share Image
“Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, when you leave your childhood behind too early and jump into adulthood, certain parts of you never fully grow up. They… — Angela Hoke Copy Share Image
“There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
