We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The older you get, the more Saturday Morning Hangovers replace Saturday Morning Cartoons. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent. — Polixeni Papapetrou Copy Share Image
“One of the pleasures of adulthood is saying nothing when you have nothing to say.” — Mary-Claire van Leunen Copy Share Image
“How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of… — Miranda Emmerson Copy Share Image
One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm. — Gretchen Rubin 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
“Was this adulthood? To wake up every day and know it would bring both good and bad? To do things you had… — C.C. Hunter Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'" Rose chuckled. "But usually,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to… — Jena Malone Copy Share Image
“It’s time to ask why [the United States] is the only country in the world where we permit our children to be… — F.H. Buckley 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
I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for… — Gail Sheehy 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
“The weight of youth is light, yes, but life generally grows heavier into adulthood. This, embedded as deep as the most human… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“To both the racist and the puritan, childhood is not a time of life that we grow out of, as the life… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Associated with this weight gain are increased risks in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, type 2… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Camus-boy, you're always going to be the same you, just older. It's not like there's a moment when you wake up and… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
“Life is meant to form us in independence, usher us into an adulthood that begins in apprenticeship and ends in mastery, and… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
“You can tell all of us are morphing into full-blown adults, wingtip adults, because all the time now the Big Question is,… — Brad Barkley 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
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
“As a man begins to understand the sacrifices he must make to live the life he dreams of, he often loses his… — Josie Sigler Copy Share Image
I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“Adulthood involves learning to conclusively bury a great many of our hopes.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking in front of you whose thighs… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases,… — Leonard Sax Copy Share Image
An adult male living alone stops being a vaguely tragicomic bachelor once he is found in the circumstance of simultaneously taking a… — Dean Allen 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
“The years roll on and life seems like this more and more, that choices don't really exit in the way I thought… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have… — John Green Copy Share Image
Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
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