Adulthood Quotes

270 quotes by 244 authors

What is an adult? A child blown up by age. — Simone de Beauvoir
Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated… — Margaret Cho
If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools nearby that educate… — Carol Bellamy
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.' — Sydney J. Harris
The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts. — Robert Redford
Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child. — Wes Fesler
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch… — Charles Lindbergh
The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy… — Tom Brokaw
Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste ears, trying to get someone to give that respect to… — Lois McMaster Bujold
A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl
People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both in their youth… — Alice Miller
According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his ability to ride,… — Jeff Cooper
For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it, — Sarah Beeny
I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive. — Mary Ruefle
I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable journeys… — Katrina Kenison
Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood. — Pete Townshend
Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience. — Jon Winokur
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left… — John Banville

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