Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood... — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not… — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
We continue to think of virginity as first intercourse. That ends up minimizing and marginalizing other things kids are engaged in, like… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
“You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
I've crossed adulthood, and I feel like lots of people are fighting that. — Farrah Abraham Copy Share Image
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of… — Rachel Carson 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
If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they… — Freddy Adu Copy Share Image
One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
A car is a big thing for anyone going into adulthood, it's a big seminal moment. — Michael Bay Copy Share Image
“The adult world may seem a cold and empty place, with no fairies and no Father Christmas, no Toyland or Narnia, no… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
There comes a time in life where you will become and adult so that means it'll be a time to push away… — Telisa McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A… — John Scott 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
“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.” — Charles Finch 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
Adulthood is just piles of bills and trying to convince your exes how amazing youre life is. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters,… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
