One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do. — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do… — Helen Clark MacInnes Copy Share Image
“I remember a new heaviness in my body, but maybe that's the work of time and my looking back.” — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“The natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“A parent always tries to protect his child's world from the harsh reality of adulthood. - Busch” — Richard Doetsch Copy Share Image
“Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Even if you make it into adulthood without running, you aren't out of the woods yet. You may still get sucked in.” — Dana L. Ayers Copy Share Image
I think you should pay for your own mortgage, birth control and college loans. It's not because I'm a conservative, it's because… — John Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t that the definition of adulthood? That you wanted one thing, but did another because you knew what was right and good,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from… — Monty Roberts Copy Share Image
But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
“They envy your youth. You two are like exotic creatures from the land of the young.’ I’ve never understood all that these-are-the-best-years-of-your-life… — Leanne Hall Copy Share Image
At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
“When I god older and realized my life was built around the idea my career would be something I wanted to love,… — Alida Nugent Copy Share Image
Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
“But grownups were always in a turmoil, every possible action muddied over by thoughts of the consequences, by self-doubt, by selfimage, by… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups,… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
When we believe in our child fully, we trust that they are doing the very best they can at every moment, given… — Jan Hunt Copy Share Image
“...because you are not trying simply to complete a set of books or toys or Weetabix cards, you are trying to complete… — Neil Perryman Copy Share Image
I never really recovered from the shock of discovering that women do what we do; they save their best pairs for the… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
As babies, we hold our mother's fingers. As toddlers, we hold our father's necks. As young children, we hold both of their… — Kayla Jackson Copy Share Image
“The child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. They claim strength, these parents,… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When we are young, everyone teaches us to talk and walk, but as we grow up, they tell us to shut up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Play itself is a primary process, not a luxury, not a hobby, but something all children must do to survive into adulthood.” — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late. — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
You know you're an adult when you iron a shirt the night before you have to wear it. — Anonymous 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
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
“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
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
“Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.” — Megan Crane 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
“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
“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
