We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
“Now, as an adult, my hopes for the future were simple: I wanted to be alone, and to be surrounded by flowers.… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“...when it comes to defining adulthood, nothing has made me feel more grown-up than knowing that one of the two people in… — Jean Hannah Edelstein Copy Share Image
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
“Death and dying makes us into children once again, in truth, one last time, there in our final wailing cries. More than… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“As you continue to shift responsibilities and roles during the last years of high school, be sure to initiate honest dialogue with… — Melissa Shultz Copy Share Image
In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular… — Marian Wright Edelman 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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence.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
“She had come to the clinic because she didn't want to be a little girl anymore. But it wasn't having sex that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor;… — Robert Greenberg Copy Share Image
“First of all, I think that sex, like love, is a sacred thing..if I were going to live beyond puberty, it would… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle… — Jane Ridley Copy Share Image
Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“You're at a tricky age. Is it your parent's presence or your parent's absence that's more empowering? I'm no expert. I went… — Nancy Freund Copy Share Image
“[...] the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs.… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you just have to stop caring, and let your problems solve themselves. Or, you could act like an adult and take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when they realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like… — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books… — Anita Silvey Copy Share Image
“The man was a bully. A bully who'd elevated himself to a high-level position, but a bully just the same. No amount… — Gwenda Bond Copy Share Image
All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our… — John C. Lilly Copy Share Image
“If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
“The entrepreneurs are only about my age, probably younger, but they don't seem so. Their tailored clothes and unbending hairdos, their clipboards… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
Sweet crazy conversations full of half sentences,daydreams and misunderstandings are more thrilling than understanding could ever be…Just like teenage is more thrilling… — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
[Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“It’s time to ask why [the United States] is the only country in the world where we permit our children to be… — F.H. Buckley Copy Share Image
I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
![“Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful teaching studio; wrote thousands of letters; traveled widely; attended the theater religiously; played cards, billiards, and…” quote by Robert Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6f0/robert-greenberg-54038_adulthood_along-the-way-mozart-got-married-fathere_2030463.png)
![“[...] the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs. To accept the burden that someone 'can't live without you' is unrealistic. It infantilises that person and overburdens you. p.226” quote by Stephanie Dowrick](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/405/stephanie-dowrick-28632_adulthood_the-responsibility-for-their-wellbeing-a_162017.png)
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![“It’s time to ask why [the United States] is the only country in the world where we permit our children to be saddled with tens — sometimes hundreds — of thousands of dollars of debt before they begin to earn a penny.” quote by F.H. Buckley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d66/f-h-buckley-2-99927_adulthood_it-s-time-to-ask-why-the-united-states-i_3079666.jpg)
