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
“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
“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
I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories… — Neil Gaiman 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
“Unfortunately, some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship, nothing will help.… — Andrea Lavinthal Copy Share Image
It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
I have my own cosmology that's kind of like an esoteric mix of a lot of different things that work for me… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The 60s were a continuation of the 50s much more than people realized. Certainly in some countries, like Britain, there was still… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront… — Mike A. Males Copy Share Image
“So many land mines in this new territory called adulthood. Talent has a window. Freedom sometimes becomes a trap. We may die… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage… — Jean-Georges Noverre 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
According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“To the Jews the age of 13 (the Sumerian unit of 12 plus 1) marks the threshold of adulthood. It is curious… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“You love because you want to need someone the way you did when you were a child, and have them need you… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
“And when adulthood fails you, you can still summon the memory of the black swan on the pond of your childhood, the… — Barbara Ras Copy Share Image
“Our 20s are the defining decade of adulthood. 80% of life's most defining moments take place by about age 35. 2/3 of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness,… — John Banville Copy Share Image
To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There is 'a time to be born' - and born again, free of accumulated, encrusted sores of fears and prejudices, old hates,… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
“You can tell all of us are morphing into full-blown adults, wingtip adults, because all the time now the Big Question is,… — Brad Barkley Copy Share Image
Cancer magnifies the in-betweenness of young adulthood: You're not a child anymore, yet you're not fully ready to live in the adult… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
“The adult world may seem a cold and empty place, with no fairies and no Father Christmas, no Toyland or Narnia, no… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“This was when he first suspected that the kindly child-loving God extolled by his headmistress might not exist. As it turned out,… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
“We're romantic. We're hopeful. We're done for. The worst part of this all? The idea of struggle and compromise seems exciting to… — Alida Nugent Copy Share Image
Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
“when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle,… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
