We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As an inventor, it's a rite of passage to have an engine. I'd like to have my own engine someday. — Lonnie Johnson Copy Share Image
“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.” — Margaret A. Edwards Copy Share Image
I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young. — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life. — Heather Mills Copy Share Image
“Groveling was a rite of passage. It’s where you got to look so pathetic no one would want you anyway, but you… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Whether your childhood roots lie in the city, the country or possibly more crucially in the neighbourhood suburbs of this wide brown… — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
“Coffee is far more than a beverage. It is an invitation to life, disguised as a cup of warm liquid. It's a… — Nichole Johnson Copy Share Image
So basically, you know, the first day on the job you get there and you realize everybody has a Nerf gun. They… — Mark Rober Copy Share Image
“There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, singled, and female in New York.… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I am your sire. I am to guide you through your first days as a vampire. Your first feeding is a rite… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“Back in the pens, once the herd was gathered, the men gingerly and methodically guided the calves into a separate gated area.… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“So Oz finally became home; the imagined world became the actual world, as it does for us all, because the truth is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Thanks for the apology, Caden, really. Anyway, isn’t it pretty normal for a straight girl to fall for a gay guy? All… — Cale Dietrich Copy Share Image
“Ever since I first read Midori Snyder’s essay, ‘ The Armless Maiden and the Hero’s Journey ’ in The Journal of Mythic… — Karen Mahoney Copy Share Image
“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
“Men cannot be men—much less good or heroic men—unless their actions have meaningful consequences to people they truly care about. Strength requires… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
“Though we are addicted to instant gratification, we are seldom gratified because, although we are making everything possible now, we are seldom… — Michael L. Brown Copy Share Image
Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in… — Ed O'Brien Copy Share Image
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage.… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
It's a rite of passage for all women to make sure the next generation is in a better place than you. I… — Lucy Bronze Copy Share Image
Being a mother impacts every aspect of your life. It's a rite of passage which gives you an entirely different outlook on… — Essie Davis Copy Share Image
I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Across disparate cultures that require physical risk-taking as a rite of passage, it is always the men who engage in such pursuits. — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place… — Denise Linn Copy Share Image
When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it.… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
You see the guys in the Ribera jackets and it's really a rite of passage to be able to work in Japan,… — Big E Copy Share Image
