'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood. — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
“Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It was quite a blow to have my perfect image of my father shattered, but that's something we all face before we… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“They were all in agreement that adulthood could, and should, be fun.” — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult? — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Being nice to someone you'd rather shank isn't being fake... it's sucking it up, acting like an adult, and avoiding prison — Rose Etheridge Copy Share Image
“Your first period may unequivocally announce puberty, but your first 9–5 doesn’t definitively mean you’ve grown up.” — Mia Fontaine Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
[Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
Sweet crazy conversations full of half sentences,daydreams and misunderstandings are more thrilling than understanding could ever be…Just like teenage is more thrilling… — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“...when it comes to defining adulthood, nothing has made me feel more grown-up than knowing that one of the two people in… — Jean Hannah Edelstein Copy Share Image
We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be… — Frances McDormand 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 experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence… — Paul Tournier 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
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
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
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
“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
I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing… — Alex Winston Copy Share Image
“Only as I approached adulthood did I realize that life is a process of continual becoming.” — Peter Korn Copy Share Image
It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood. — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
When I came into my adulthood, I recognized how fortunate I was to be doing what I loved to do. — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it? — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
One of my Secrets of Adulthood is: Most decisions don't require extensive research. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. — G K Chesterton Copy Share Image
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need. — Chris Hogan Copy Share Image
“Is this what being a grown-up is like ? Badness and goodness squished together in a big ball of craziness ?” — Kirstin Cronn-Mills Copy Share Image
How you were raised is no excuse for ignorance. If you're grown you're old enough to make your own decisions. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood. — Larry David Copy Share Image
“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad… — Chet Atkins Copy Share Image
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