As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Face your fears and overcome them. Become the best person you can be as you grow into your impending adulthood. Find what… — L.B. Simmons Copy Share Image
Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Their best chance for a happy adulthood lies in discovering and nurturing their strengths, cultivating flexibility in the face of obstacles, and… — Christine Koh Copy Share Image
Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood. — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except… — Joan Walton Collaso Copy Share Image
For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“The ICU's life cycle for humans is as follows: a spurt of intense activity at birth; timeless adulthood, when one is afflicted… — Geoffrey C. Bowker Copy Share Image
“Because just as all political and historical change sooner or later disappoints, so does adulthood. So does life. Sometimes I think the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Where do babies come from? Don't bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently as five years ago.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Yet GenX'er teens didn't slow down--they were just as likely to drive, drink alcohol, and date as their Boomer peers and more… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
As an actor, I relish and delight in doing things that I'm not necessarily the demographic for. This is a demographic that… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
I was well into adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay. It took years of… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to… — Amanda Donohoe 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
“A man has two primary drives in early adulthood: one toward power, success, and accomplishment; the other toward love, companionship, and sex.” — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
“Only in adulthood can any intelligent understanding of the meaning of one's existence in this world be gained from one's experiences in… — Bruno Bettleheim Copy Share Image
“We were grown-ups, yet still children, and yet neither, stuck in that space between infancy and adulthood, confusing and murky, where some… — Linda Kage Copy Share Image
True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance.… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing. — J W Jepson 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
“I divide my life into two parts. Not really a Before and After, more as if they are bookends, holding together flaccid… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet,… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
“We recall that to the Cherokee, as to other people who have noticed how long it sometimes takes for humans to develop… — Alice Walker 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
In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe.… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
There's so much of our behavior that kind of curdles and hardens as we get into adulthood, and it becomes so much… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“...the changes during adolescence are not something to just get through; they are qualities we actually need to hold on to in… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
With my dad gone, I made a resolution to myself. I would become the man of the house. Adulthood was still more… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
My hero in adulthood would be Michael Bryant, who's dead, bless him. His memory lives on. He was an actor at the… — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I came from nothing out in the woods near Tallahassee, Florida. My mom was a single mom raising five of us. It… — Tavoris Cloud Copy Share Image
“A teenager who pretends to be an adult is still a teenager. If you imagine that getting high at a party and… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
