“Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.” — Megan Crane Copy Share Image
“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.” — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you… — Elizabeth Noble Copy Share Image
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood? — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Just try to stay a child as long as you can. Don't force into adulthood. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
[Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“The man was a bully. A bully who'd elevated himself to a high-level position, but a bully just the same. No amount… — Gwenda Bond 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
“If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
“The entrepreneurs are only about my age, probably younger, but they don't seem so. Their tailored clothes and unbending hairdos, their clipboards… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Even more than getting married or having kids, I found losing a parent is what thrusts you into adulthood. For me it… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
“Children are not like us. They are beings apart: impenetrable, unapproachable. They inhabit not our world but a world we have lost… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
“We packed our trunks and suitcases, prepared for our natural and necessary moves away from home. Outwardly, we breathed sighs of relief… — Hannah Pittard Copy Share Image
It always seems that the generation below you is getting worse, which is why I had the worst character in the film… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
It is not however, adulthood itself, but parenthood that forms the glass shroud of memory. For there is an interesting quirk in… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
there is no gateway to maturity; there is no line that is crossed. Maturity is like a maze, one path leading to… — Mignon G. Eberhart Copy Share Image
where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
The ability and willingness to keep two opposing views in mind at the same time are hallmarks of adulthood. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
“It occurs to me suddenly, maybe learning to settle is part of adulthood. Maybe if you don't, it eats you up.” — Liska Jacobs Copy Share Image