“Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.” — Megan Crane Copy Share Image
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Just try to stay a child as long as you can. Don't force into adulthood. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates Copy Share Image
To be mature, you have to be an adult. But to be in love, you have to be nothing but a human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them. — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
“Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that's something we should continue doing.” — Ashley Ormon Copy Share Image
True freedom is the spiritual capacity that enables one to cope with any circumstance. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
In high school, I felt pressure to fit in with groups and with people who didn't actually want to be my friend.… — Katie Stevens Copy Share Image
What hurts me the most is teenage girls believe that having a baby will make their boyfriends love them, then they get… — Anonymous 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
Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I… — David Carr Copy Share Image
I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Not to grow up properly is to retain our 'caterpillar' quality from childhood (where it is a virtue) into adulthood (where it… — Richard Dawkins 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
Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“But as you get older, your courage attracts gunk and crusty things and dirt and fear and knowing how bad things can… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“FËDOR Mikhailovich Dostoevski, the Russian novelist, said one time that, "One sacred memory from childhood is perhaps the best education." I can… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
Acting was definitely a comfortable place. It didn't force me into adulthood because I was ready to be independent. — Jessica Barden Copy Share Image
I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked,… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger. — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.” — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
You can only pretend for so long before reality hits and you realize he/she is not who you thought or what you… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. — Caryn Leschen Copy Share Image
Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood. — Lee Thompson Young Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive.” — Tim Relf Copy Share Image
Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
![“I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]” quote by Dani Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f2b/dani-shapiro-2273_adulthood_i-had-spent-my-childhood-and-the-better_1377892.png)
