“It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The older you get, the more Saturday Morning Hangovers replace Saturday Morning Cartoons. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent. — Polixeni Papapetrou Copy Share Image
“One of the pleasures of adulthood is saying nothing when you have nothing to say.” — Mary-Claire van Leunen Copy Share Image
I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger. — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
Can you remember when you didn't want to sleep? Isn't it inconceivable? I guess the definition of adulthood is that you want… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
“A few years ago, I graduated college, diploma in one hand, margarita in the other, completely oblivious to the shit storm that… — Alida Nugent Copy Share Image
When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
When my dad left public life, I was 13 years old. I went through my teen years and into adulthood in relative… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Even in early adulthood, men can't be told what to wear; they can only be subtly moved by example, encouragement, and a… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills… — Susanna Miller Copy Share Image
“quickly. Afterward, things are not so easy. The twenties are that critical period of adulthood. These are the years when it will… — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
“Here's a thought: Maybe you've remained single well into adulthood because...you know what you're doing. Because there is something right with you.” — Sara Eckel Copy Share Image
“I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“No one except your husband knows of the cautiousness at the heart of your life. Your adulthood has been a progressive retreat… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Really, I want you to finish this book feeling like we could become friends, if the timing was right. That's it. Oh,… — Alida Nugent Copy Share Image
“I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every day.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put… — Ricky Williams Copy Share Image
Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“A gyermekkor természetes igénye: szabadság. S a mai gyermeket szinte ketrecbe kényszerítik. A felnőttkor természetes igénye: élet. S a mai felnőtt, vagy… — Sándor Weöres Copy Share Image
“It’s adult swim time and I’m diving in here at the shallow end.” — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
