“Other cultures make a clear delineation between childhood and adulthood; there are rites of passages and initiation ceremonies to mark these transitions.… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
“What we rarely see receive is a picture of adulthood that represents it as the ideal it should be. (...) What better… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood,… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
I did 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood,' and that's what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do 'hood… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter.… — Peter David Copy Share Image
The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
“Children are not like us. They are beings apart: impenetrable, unapproachable. They inhabit not our world but a world we have lost… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“You love because you want to need someone the way you did when you were a child, and have them need you… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
After all, isn't that what really draws the line between childhood and adulthood, knowing that you are solely responsible for yourself? If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He considered himself, and the way he moved in reaction, like a pinball, from one thing to the next, as he was… — Laleh Khadivi Copy Share Image
“ADULTHOOD, NORMA BELIEVED, is about giving back and passing lessons on to the next generation, so that the virtues you work so… — Erika Hayasaki Copy Share Image
Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except… — Joan Walton Collaso Copy Share Image
Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood. — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
“A man has two primary drives in early adulthood: one toward power, success, and accomplishment; the other toward love, companionship, and sex.” — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
There's a tremendous sense of shame that people who are lonely feel. I say that as someone who felt ashamed of being… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
I was well into adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay. It took years of… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For many people, the age of 20 is when they first reach adulthood, and it's a time full of ideals and dreams.… — Lee Min-ho Copy Share Image
It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
“Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Their best chance for a happy adulthood lies in discovering and nurturing their strengths, cultivating flexibility in the face of obstacles, and… — Christine Koh Copy Share Image
Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“Face your fears and overcome them. Become the best person you can be as you grow into your impending adulthood. Find what… — L.B. Simmons Copy Share Image
I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I tried to take a few community college classes, but it got in the way of music, so I stopped. I had… — Alex Winston Copy Share Image
Do you know what it means to become an adult? It means theres less and less to smile about. So well have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grow up and you turn into burglars and get shot, or worse, they make you wear a coat and tie and stash… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Alas, that’s what adulthood is supposed to be about: “an overcoming” or (better yet) “a disciplining of a developmentally appropriate insanity.” — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
