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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
“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
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 Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
I told my mum recently, when I used to envisage my adulthood, it was just me working at a corner shop that… — Rosie Jones Copy Share Image
Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Life is meant to form us in independence, usher us into an adulthood that begins in apprenticeship and ends in mastery, and… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“To both the racist and the puritan, childhood is not a time of life that we grow out of, as the life… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Camus-boy, you're always going to be the same you, just older. It's not like there's a moment when you wake up and… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
Associated with this weight gain are increased risks in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, type 2… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“The weight of youth is light, yes, but life generally grows heavier into adulthood. This, embedded as deep as the most human… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Who told you you couldn't come back when you're grown? Was it the same person who told you grown-ups don't cry or… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kid’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People are funny in like young adulthood, just like how people's musical tastes are cool, but it changes very rapidly. In five… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
Ahhh, to be a kid again where you can say something silly and not be judged, hit someone and not catch a… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
Part of the thrill of guiding children into adulthood is the release. But it's also a parent's greatest act of surrender. Still,… — Charles R. Swindoll 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You might wish to revisit your understanding of the word everything.” Gregory turned to his mother. “Vocabulary and comprehension were never her… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
The importance of the development of the emotional body is hardly recognized today. We are pretty much left to our own devices… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“The whole time I pretend I have mental telepathy. And with my mind only, I’ll say — or think? — to the… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increased incidence of the disease during adolescence and… — Erik Paulsen Copy Share Image
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