When we are young, everyone teaches us to talk and walk, but as we grow up, they tell us to shut up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I told my mum recently, when I used to envisage my adulthood, it was just me working at a corner shop that… — Rosie Jones Copy Share Image
There's a tremendous sense of shame that people who are lonely feel. I say that as someone who felt ashamed of being… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. — G K Chesterton Copy Share Image
When an adult creates something unique, it is experience. When a kid constructs anything memorable, he is prodigious. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hey, remember the feeling you got when you cleaned your room without being asked and no one noticed? That's what adulthood's like. . . — Rick Copy Share Image
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know you're an adult when you iron a shirt the night before you have to wear it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
There’s no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It’s not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
“Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Is this what being a grown-up is like ? Badness and goodness squished together in a big ball of craziness ?” — Kirstin Cronn-Mills 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
Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold… — David Mitchell 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
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
I wasn't remotely ambivalent about marrying the person I was marrying, but I was 35. I was deep into my adulthood, and… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. — Caryn Leschen Copy Share Image
Do you know what it means to become an adult? It means theres less and less to smile about. So well have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like.… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
