The 60s were a continuation of the 50s much more than people realized. Certainly in some countries, like Britain, there was still… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I've lost over 800 West Virginians the last year. Lost their lives to opiate and drug addiction. This is something that we've… — Joe Manchin Copy Share Image
The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for… — Joe Hill 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
The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood. — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
“And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going… — Jane Yolen 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
“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
“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
“We are all entitled to our own share of mistakes and learning experiences in life. No one should take them away from… — Lukasz Laniecki 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
I think that more and more young people are discovering that gainful employment isn't the only thing in life. That they can… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every day.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do. — Amy Dickinson 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
Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America,… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
“But as you get older, your courage attracts gunk and crusty things and dirt and fear and knowing how bad things can… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience. — Jon Winokur 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
One of my 'Secrets of Adulthood' is: Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
