“When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.” — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. — Caryn Leschen Copy Share Image
People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood. — Anonymous 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
Adulthood is just piles of bills and trying to convince your exes how amazing youre life is. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great romances in history end in death. Romeo and Juliet, JFK and Jackie, Siegfried and Froi, — Vinnie Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you just have to stop caring, and let your problems solve themselves. Or, you could act like an adult and take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books… — Anita Silvey Copy Share Image
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
Sweet crazy conversations full of half sentences,daydreams and misunderstandings are more thrilling than understanding could ever be…Just like teenage is more thrilling… — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Yeah, we were looking for a way to represent adulthood and the passing into adulthood. And I think, for me personally and… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“It’s adult swim time and I’m diving in here at the shallow end.” — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
“Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
