there is no gateway to maturity; there is no line that is crossed. Maturity is like a maze, one path leading to… — Mignon G. Eberhart Copy Share Image
where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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I've been told that certain species of fish will grow according to the size of their environment. Put them in a tiny… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
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The most important lesson I've learned is to not limit myself. Kids at my age often get intimidated by the idea of… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter.… — Peter David Copy Share Image
“Adulthood is supposed to be about "a disciplining of a developmentally appropriate insanity". "Adolescents, and their parents who were once adolescents, are… — Phillips Copy Share Image
Yeah, we were looking for a way to represent adulthood and the passing into adulthood. And I think, for me personally and… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
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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
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“Bloom of adulthood. Try a whiff of that. On your back in the dark you remember. Ah you remember. Cloudless May day.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
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America has tolerated inequality because people think they can get ahead. If you have immobility on top of inequality, then people are… — Thomas B. Edsall Copy Share Image
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Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor;… — Robert Greenberg Copy Share Image
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
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I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put… — Ricky Williams Copy Share Image
Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“A gyermekkor természetes igénye: szabadság. S a mai gyermeket szinte ketrecbe kényszerítik. A felnőttkor természetes igénye: élet. S a mai felnőtt, vagy… — Sándor Weöres Copy Share Image
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Our rising generation is worthy of our best efforts to support and strengthen them in their journey to adulthood. … In every… — Ronald A. Rasband Copy Share Image
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