We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“As a man begins to understand the sacrifices he must make to live the life he dreams of, he often loses his… — Josie Sigler Copy Share Image
I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
“Adulthood involves learning to conclusively bury a great many of our hopes.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of… — Miranda Emmerson Copy Share Image
One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“She had the feeling, the tingling, lingering sense that something or someone life altering was just over the horizon. She had no… — Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney Copy Share Image
The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“A few years ago, I graduated college, diploma in one hand, margarita in the other, completely oblivious to the shit storm that… — Alida Nugent Copy Share Image
I think that young people are less attached to items and objects now. They're less attached to consuming things and accruing things… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There've always been people in the borderland between childhood and adulthood. That state is not a matter of chronological age. It's a… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“I mean, all I do here is do the work that my bosses tell me to do the way they tell me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I had serious reservations about putting my son in the public schools in my area. I have a tremendous amount of fear… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
“So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“I wondered what a man I had encountered the day before on the plane en route to Chicago's O'Hare airport would have… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
