Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace. — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
“In this country you're an adult; I'll grant you that. But your adulthood in other terms is still a long time away.” — Cesar Torres Copy Share Image
Two things suck about becoming an adult male - paying taxes and getting a finger in your butt. — Guy Code Copy Share Image
Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight. — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that… — Rob Sheffield 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
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
“Families start out, most of the time, with unconditional acceptance of one another. That acceptance starts in childhood and continues into adulthood.… — Bart Hopkins Copy Share Image
Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I want to know we're not pushing children toward the traditions of life, but instead cultivating them to grow in their own… — Ashley Ormon Copy Share Image
Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I remember everything,' Bette Midler flatly notes. 'But you know how in life, you tend to hold grudges? Well, I don’t do… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
For me the breakthrough was the realization that I wasn't the center of the universe or even the centre of my own… — Shaun Micallef Copy Share Image
I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the… — Arnold Adoff Copy Share Image
In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Children have always tumbled down rabbit holes, fallen through mirrors, been swept away by unseasonal floods or carried off by tornadoes. Children… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children… — Orson Scott Card 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
“They also create wormholes in time, transporting their mothers and fathers back to feelings and sensations they haven't had since they themselves… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“Even if you make it into adulthood without running, you aren't out of the woods yet. You may still get sucked in.” — Dana L. Ayers Copy Share Image
“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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
“Play itself is a primary process, not a luxury, not a hobby, but something all children must do to survive into adulthood.” — Sarah Ruhl 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
Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late. — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“The natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“A parent always tries to protect his child's world from the harsh reality of adulthood. - Busch” — Richard Doetsch 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
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“I remember a new heaviness in my body, but maybe that's the work of time and my looking back.” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich 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
The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do… — Helen Clark MacInnes Copy Share Image
People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. — Caryn Leschen Copy Share Image
