“The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4” — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly — Hank Green Copy Share Image
“Most adults have dropped out of the school of life before they reached adulthood.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing… — Scott Dikkers Copy Share Image
“And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
How you were raised is no excuse for ignorance. If you're grown you're old enough to make your own decisions. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need. — Chris Hogan Copy Share Image
“If you manage to make it to some semblance of adulthood, just showing up turns out to be one of the kindest,… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
“Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, when you leave your childhood behind too early and jump into adulthood, certain parts of you never fully grow up. They… — Angela Hoke Copy Share Image
“There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“A felnőttség a csalódás eredménye. Ahogy múlik az élet, az embernek le kell mondania ifjúsága reményeiről, álmairól, vágyairól, s egyre inkább úgy… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Interesting, Miles thought. Like himself, Father Mark, as a child, had been reassured by the imagined proximity of God, whereas adults, perhaps… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams.… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“With his total cholesterol over250 and his weight not far behind, there were no more Philly cheesesteaks, fries, and a large soda… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
There’s no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It’s not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
“Even Story Time was political. Miss Mumbi infused each fairytale with Kenyan flavour. She illustrated these remixes on the blackboard. 'Rapunzel' became… — Diriye Osman Copy Share Image
I'm the most passionate about pushing the realization that there's the joy of love and kindness and sharing, all of these basic… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
Being a senior in high school means you're not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your… — James Dean Copy Share Image
For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I think that more and more young people are discovering that gainful employment isn't the only thing in life. That they can… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
“Is this what being a grown-up is like ? Badness and goodness squished together in a big ball of craziness ?” — Kirstin Cronn-Mills Copy Share Image
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad… — Chet Atkins Copy Share Image
“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood. — Larry David 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
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
“It’s a Secret of Adulthood: I give myself limits to give myself freedom.” — Gretchen Rubin 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
“They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.” — George Eliot 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
A baby-sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers. — Anonymous 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
It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
