Adulthood Quotes
270 quotes by 243 authors
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The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.
— Patch Adams
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Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography.
— Edmund White
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Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.
— Grace Metalious
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Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas
— Paula Poundstone
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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children,…
— Brian Aldiss
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A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.
— Rebecca Carroll
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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
— Socrates
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The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments. No…
— Mike A. Males
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Associated with this weight gain are increased risks in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes and, ultimately,…
— Jeff Schweitzer
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Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme .…
— John Money
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I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body.…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
— Walter Savage Landor
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Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
— Louise J. Kaplan
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I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately,…
— Virginia Satir
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Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to…
— Michael Shermer
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More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of adulthood. Armour encumbers,…
— Steven Erikson
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Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
— Dr. Seuss
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No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Who Wrote These Adulthood Quotes
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