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
For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it, — Sarah Beeny Copy Share Image
“I remember everything,' Bette Midler flatly notes. 'But you know how in life, you tend to hold grudges? Well, I don’t do… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
School is boring and dull, but I go here to learn to be a proper adult — Japanese Drama Copy Share Image
Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to… — Virginia Satir 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
People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
You might wish to revisit your understanding of the word everything.” Gregory turned to his mother. “Vocabulary and comprehension were never her… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Oh, monsters are scared', said Lettie. 'And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, 'I'm… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
“That was the problem, wasn't it? You left home. But you never did become an adult. Not really. You just fucked up… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it,… — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness. — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace. — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
I think you should pay for your own mortgage, birth control and college loans. It's not because I'm a conservative, it's because… — John Hawkins 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
Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
