“When you stop being a kid, you lose your one chance at that too-tender-to-touch gold, that breathtaken everything and forever. Once you… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking,… — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body.… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There's so much of our behavior that kind of curdles and hardens as we get into adulthood, and it becomes so much… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
How can a male say he loves a female and he abuse her at the same time. — Keondre Key Copy Share Image
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Milk is for babies. Human beings are the only species that drinks milk into adulthood and besides that we prefer to drink… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
“We're romantic. We're hopeful. We're done for. The worst part of this all? The idea of struggle and compromise seems exciting to… — Alida Nugent Copy Share Image
Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give… — Lois McMaster Bujold 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
The goal of my philanthropic work has always been to make sure that every child has a chance to live up to… — Shakira 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
I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling… — Sally Field Copy Share Image
“A few years ago, I graduated college, diploma in one hand, margarita in the other, completely oblivious to the shit storm that… — Alida Nugent 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
Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“If we use child in a good sense (it has also legitimately a bad one) we must not allow that to push… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old… — Tian Dayton Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive.” — Tim Relf Copy Share Image
I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
