“Your pain is a divine rite of passage through which you will be reborn as a being of strength, wisdom and purpose.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I guess I always felt like rom-coms were sort of a rite of passage as an actor. — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
Every new generation seems to have to go through its Doors rite of passage. — John Densmore 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
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage. — Hank Nuwer 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“No nation can approve violence against the most innocent and vulnerable, and expect the effects of that approval to be limited. By… — Paul Greenberg Copy Share Image
“I was ten when I heard the music that ended the first phase of my life and cast me hurtling towards a… — Mark Rice Copy Share Image
“A book isn't a single, static thing with one unarguable meaning. Each reader who comes to it brings his own special knowledge,… — Alexei Panshin 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
“Taylor wanted me to forget about Conrad, to just erase him from my mind and memory. She kept saying things like, “everybody… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“Being a failed teenager is not a crime, but a predicament and a secret crucible. It is a fun-house mirror where distortion… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Almost every culture has its own version of “forty days and forty nights,” where some young person is sent into the wilderness… — Gary Sizer Copy Share Image
“You know that point in your life when you realize that the house you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore…… — Zach Braff 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