Adulthood Quotes

270 quotes by 243 authors

The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up. — Patch Adams
Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. — Edmund White
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
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas — Paula Poundstone
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
A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure. — Rebecca Carroll
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates
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
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
Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme .… — John Money
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
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. — Walter Savage Landor
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. — Louise J. Kaplan
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
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
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
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. — Dr. Seuss
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

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