Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
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Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
“Death and dying makes us into children once again, in truth, one last time, there in our final wailing cries. More than… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle… — Jane Ridley Copy Share Image
You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“[...] the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs.… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
Cancer magnifies the in-betweenness of young adulthood: You're not a child anymore, yet you're not fully ready to live in the adult… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
“This was when he first suspected that the kindly child-loving God extolled by his headmistress might not exist. As it turned out,… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
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Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
“when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle,… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“You love because you want to need someone the way you did when you were a child, and have them need you… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
“You're at a tricky age. Is it your parent's presence or your parent's absence that's more empowering? I'm no expert. I went… — Nancy Freund Copy Share Image
Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Now, as an adult, my hopes for the future were simple: I wanted to be alone, and to be surrounded by flowers.… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh 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
“...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
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
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our… — John C. Lilly Copy Share Image
“The man was a bully. A bully who'd elevated himself to a high-level position, but a bully just the same. No amount… — Gwenda Bond Copy Share Image
In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“The entrepreneurs are only about my age, probably younger, but they don't seem so. Their tailored clothes and unbending hairdos, their clipboards… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
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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
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[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
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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
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books… — Anita Silvey Copy Share Image
“Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when they realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like… — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you just have to stop caring, and let your problems solve themselves. Or, you could act like an adult and take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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