One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I can see why you opted out of Knight training,” I countered. “They’d have ‘accidentally’ killed you before you made it to… — Jenna Black Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated to see the future of social media and also how the generation who grew up with it will evolve into… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
“They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Today is gonna be my teenagehood eve, I am getting married to adulthood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood... — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“It’s a Secret of Adulthood: I give myself limits to give myself freedom.” — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the… — Peg Bracken 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
Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational… — Janet Napolitano 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
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“I mean, all I do here is do the work that my bosses tell me to do the way they tell me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I had serious reservations about putting my son in the public schools in my area. I have a tremendous amount of fear… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
“I wonder at what point a child becomes a person. Does it happen all at once, or slowly, in stages? Is there… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Above all, staring at my old bedroom ceiling, I feel safe. Cocooned from the world; wrapped up in cotton wool. No one… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“Living a comfortable life can allow you the psychic space needed to focus on other, often bigger, things, and when you treat… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
“I wondered what a man I had encountered the day before on the plane en route to Chicago's O'Hare airport would have… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds; parents need it to be able to get up… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
How can a male say he loves a female and he abuse her at the same time. — Keondre Key Copy Share Image
My father used to say, 'Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.' — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
“The trick to being an adult is maintaining that childlike wonder while still managing to do soul-killing things like paying bills.” — Katee Robert Copy Share Image
A baby-sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of my 'Secrets of Adulthood' is: Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace. — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
“In this country you're an adult; I'll grant you that. But your adulthood in other terms is still a long time away.” — Cesar Torres Copy Share Image
Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Two things suck about becoming an adult male - paying taxes and getting a finger in your butt. — Guy Code Copy Share Image
Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight. — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
