“Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“So little is permissible for a woman—yet on her back every human climbs to adulthood.” — Janet Benton Copy Share Image
“Feeling young and old at the same time is the present." From FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY: 10 Life Lessons for Women… — Suzanne Braun Levine Copy Share Image
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“One of my biggest complaints about adulthood is that it's difficult to simply hang out with friends” — Erin Doland Copy Share Image
I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
When my dad left public life, I was 13 years old. I went through my teen years and into adulthood in relative… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
“Here's a thought: Maybe you've remained single well into adulthood because...you know what you're doing. Because there is something right with you.” — Sara Eckel Copy Share Image
“quickly. Afterward, things are not so easy. The twenties are that critical period of adulthood. These are the years when it will… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills… — Susanna Miller Copy Share Image
Even in early adulthood, men can't be told what to wear; they can only be subtly moved by example, encouragement, and a… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from… — Monty Roberts Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t that the definition of adulthood? That you wanted one thing, but did another because you knew what was right and good,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I wonder at what point a child becomes a person. Does it happen all at once, or slowly, in stages? Is there… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Living a comfortable life can allow you the psychic space needed to focus on other, often bigger, things, and when you treat… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
“Above all, staring at my old bedroom ceiling, I feel safe. Cocooned from the world; wrapped up in cotton wool. No one… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“Very few people of our generation or the next will reach adulthood without experiencing the sort of unhappiness you can't really deal… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Really, I want you to finish this book feeling like we could become friends, if the timing was right. That's it. Oh,… — Alida Nugent Copy Share Image
“No one except your husband knows of the cautiousness at the heart of your life. Your adulthood has been a progressive retreat… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Our rising generation is worthy of our best efforts to support and strengthen them in their journey to adulthood. … In every… — Ronald A. Rasband Copy Share Image
