“She had the feeling, the tingling, lingering sense that something or someone life altering was just over the horizon. She had no… — Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney Copy Share Image
I had serious reservations about putting my son in the public schools in my area. I have a tremendous amount of fear… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Just try to stay a child as long as you can. Don't force into adulthood. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I thought of my father's wisdom, as though it were buried in a box under a tree. As in the old song… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
The importance of the development of the emotional body is hardly recognized today. We are pretty much left to our own devices… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our… — John C. Lilly Copy Share Image
“Defining yourself in terms of how you rank is always dangerous and ultimately immature. It doesn't matter whether the rank has to… — Leonard Sax Copy Share Image
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. — Bruce Springsteen 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
Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking in front of you whose thighs… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
'Courtney' is a more punk-rock kids' book. It has this precious veneer that Courtney's terrible behavior trashes. And it's basically about how… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“He didn’t care if he would be a villain in Alastor’s eyes. He had made peace with the fact a long time… — Gauri Sharma Copy Share Image
“The weight of youth is light, yes, but life generally grows heavier into adulthood. This, embedded as deep as the most human… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing… — Alex Winston Copy Share Image
