We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
To be mature, you have to be an adult. But to be in love, you have to be nothing but a human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood. — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
“There is no worse preparation for adulthood than having been a child.” — Benjamin Kunkel Copy Share Image
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“So little is permissible for a woman—yet on her back every human climbs to adulthood.” — Janet Benton 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
“Other cultures make a clear delineation between childhood and adulthood; there are rites of passages and initiation ceremonies to mark these transitions.… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood,… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“Adults never explained anything. They saw children as akin to small animals, creatures who had to be tugged and beaten into adulthood… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesnt have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may… — John Money 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
One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until… — Kelly Williams Brown 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
College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increased incidence of the disease during adolescence and… — Erik Paulsen Copy Share Image
To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this… — Jane Ridley Copy Share Image
“(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone is born with a mind, he… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kid’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a… — Anonymous 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
“Who told you you couldn't come back when you're grown? Was it the same person who told you grown-ups don't cry or… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Feeling young and old at the same time is the present." From FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY: 10 Life Lessons for Women… — Suzanne Braun Levine Copy Share Image
I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“One of my biggest complaints about adulthood is that it's difficult to simply hang out with friends” — Erin Doland Copy Share Image
“You are not truly yourself until you no longer define yourself in others’ terms.” — Shawn Davis Copy Share Image
As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it, — Sarah Beeny Copy Share Image
Probably the most important thing in terms of just trying to navigate and moving forward into adulthood is staying busy. — Zelda Williams Copy Share Image
“Adulthood Begins the moment someone tells you, "You need to be more sensitive.” — Chuck Palahniuk 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
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
When little kids say something that is dirty and your ears perk up like a rabbit — Kenzie-ann Copy Share Image
I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger. — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
Can you remember when you didn't want to sleep? Isn't it inconceivable? I guess the definition of adulthood is that you want… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. — Anonymous 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
