Adulthood Quote by Anne Tyler Download Open image “I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.” — Anne Tyler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adulthood Behinds Book Books Childhood Children Hated Sitting Waiting
I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me. — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that. But then… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood;… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused,… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was “Everything You Always… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read. — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he liked he… — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. -… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“You wake in the morning, you’re feeling fine, but all at once you think, “Something’s not right. Something’s off somewhere; what is it?” And… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“...that was Julian for you: reckless. A dashing sailor, a speedy driver, a frequenter of single bars, he was the kind of man who… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Disaster followed disaster... the hero stuck in there, though. Macon had long ago noticed that all adventure movies had the same moral: Perseverance pays.… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Justine hated pantsuits. Whenever she saw one, she had an urge to tell the owner some scandalous fortune, loudly enough to be heard everywhere:… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out… — Nicolas Cage 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
You can only pretend for so long before reality hits and you realize he/she is not who you thought or what you truly want. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“English: "Being an adult doesn't mean killing the child we once were; it means being able to protect him." Česky: „Být dospělým neznamená zabít… — Sebastián Wortys 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 made of… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'" Rose chuckled. "But usually, they're just… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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
“one Secret of Adulthood is “Never start a sentence with the words ‘No offense’”? “And” — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
