“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
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
To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing. — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage. — Gemma Ward Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, a Saturday job was a rite of passage, every kid had one. — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
“Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Girlhood is often marred by schoolgirl cruelty, a grim rite of passage in which parents sometimes cruelly collude. Mothers and fathers must… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
By the time I got to college in the '90s, virtually every young woman I knew was on the pill. It was… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused,… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“What is this Christmas?” Wing asked. Orro turned from the stove. “It’s the rite of passage during which the young males of… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I come from a place where to go to prison is like a rite of passage. It's something that you gain respect… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant… — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
In the deaf community, we give people name signs based on their quirks or characteristics. So it means you can't really give… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
“If you read Rite of Passage and enjoy yourself, I couldn't be more pleased. I hope it gets you of. On the… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
“Caeden grabbed my hand and grinned like a little boy in a candy shop. “Carnival time!” He drug me from the car… — Micalea Smeltzer Copy Share Image
“According to folk belief that is reflected in the stories and poems, a being who is petrified man and he can revive.… — Penina Mezei Copy Share Image
“The most convincing proof of the Americans’ successful rite of passage came from across the lines. The Germans had previously regarded the… — Joseph E. Persico 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I think it's a rite of passage that the minute you land in Japan, you have to go to a karaoke bar. — Bishop Briggs Copy Share Image
