I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
For most of my adult life, I drove through Central Park every morning going to work. — Susan Lucci Copy Share Image
I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor. — Josh Hopkins Copy Share Image
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life. — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I spent most of my adult life trying to get as far away from my folks as possible. — Oliver Luck Copy Share Image
Some of the most powerful memories are those when you are very, very young. Adult life is seen through the reflection of… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
“and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Give me a complete late-stage revision of my adult life. Flash. Give me anything in this whole fucking world that is exactly… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had consisted entirely of free time.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I have spent almost my entire adult life fighting to defend the religious liberty of every American to follow his or her… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
I realised I had spent the majority of my adult life doing two characters - Maude from 1972-'79 and Dorothy from 1985-'92… — Bea Arthur Copy Share Image
As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, it was the attention I got from it, the immediate response from the audience, the thrill of… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I squatted for most of my adult life. I'm not condoning squatting; it was just the only way I could do what… — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“My eyes have really only been opened since you came into my world. You gave me everything. You made me really want… — Raine Miller Copy Share Image
I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
“Also: people pretended not to want what they wanted. Pretending tried to hide the will. That was the secret of adult life,… — Kevin Canty Copy Share Image
“It’s said that sport is the civilised society’s substitute for war, and also that the games we play as children are designed… — Danielle Wood Copy Share Image
“She could not remember ever being truly happy in her adult life; her years with her mother had been built up devotedly… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“When a girl is sexually abused, layers of secrecy and shame are added to her self-blame. The incestuous aggressor always projects the… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“Someone once asked Gandhi for a sermon, and his reply was, “My life is my sermon.” In the same way, we see… — Benjamin L. Corey Copy Share Image
But remember, for all your adult life you'll be a woman. And how you live your life as a woman, all by… — Anne Ortlund Copy Share Image
“It’s taboo to admit that you’re lonely. You can make jokes about it, of course. You can tell people that you spend… — Ryan O'Connell Copy Share Image
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“I would like to believe and give in to my naiveté, I would like to embrace the fact that I am back… — Henry Martin Copy Share Image
“The human brain is the most complex entity in the universe. It has between fifty and one hundred billion nerve cells, or… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The child (mis)recognizes itself as a whole entity for the first time. It sees an image of itself as a unified person,… — Glenn Ward Copy Share Image
“I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Some sense that to repress feelings of their childhood is to poison the very well-springs of life; they know that though repression… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“Lettuce harvests in Salinas, melons in Brawley, grapes in Parlier, oranges in Ontario, cotton in Firebaugh -- and, finally, Santa Clara, the… — José Antonio Villareal Copy Share Image