“When I god older and realized my life was built around the idea my career would be something I wanted to love,… — Alida Nugent Copy Share Image
But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
When little kids say something that is dirty and your ears perk up like a rabbit — Kenzie-ann Copy Share Image
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
“There's something to that in both directions," said Ekaterin mildly. "Nothing is more guaranteed to make one start acting like a child… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I think that young people are less attached to items and objects now. They're less attached to consuming things and accruing things… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not… — David Richo 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
“Adulthood brings with it the pernicious illusion of control, and perhaps even depends on it. I mean that mirage of dominion over… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
As babies, we hold our mother's fingers. As toddlers, we hold our father's necks. As young children, we hold both of their… — Kayla Jackson Copy Share Image
“What we rarely see receive is a picture of adulthood that represents it as the ideal it should be. (...) What better… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Realization that i couldn't be a ballet dancer was a blessing in disguise because that was the first time I felt like… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated to see the future of social media and also how the generation who grew up with it will evolve into… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries. — Alan Hirsch 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 my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school,… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
“She had come to the clinic because she didn't want to be a little girl anymore. But it wasn't having sex that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
