“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
“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
“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
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
“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
Associated with this weight gain are increased risks in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, type 2… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Camus-boy, you're always going to be the same you, just older. It's not like there's a moment when you wake up and… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
“To both the racist and the puritan, childhood is not a time of life that we grow out of, as the life… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Life is meant to form us in independence, usher us into an adulthood that begins in apprenticeship and ends in mastery, and… — Joan D. Chittister 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
“(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
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
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
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
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
I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The whole time I pretend I have mental telepathy. And with my mind only, I’ll say — or think? — to the… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s… — Neil Gaiman 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
You might wish to revisit your understanding of the word everything.” Gregory turned to his mother. “Vocabulary and comprehension were never her… — Julia Quinn 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances… — Michael Marmot 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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 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