Adulthood Quotes

270 quotes by 230 authors

Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood... — Richard Peck
Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day… — David Rakoff
Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful… — Robert Greenberg
I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made… — Freddy Adu
Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control… — Judith Lewis Herman
I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put on a pedestal… — Ricky Williams
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memoryâ€”childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle… — Dani Shapiro
All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our own nature as… — John C. Lilly
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic… — Jonathan Kozol
It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep as much of… — John Thorn
If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business — Ronald Reagan
The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must… — Rabindranath Tagore
I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of… — Monty Roberts
I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we reach… — Arnold Adoff
Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly — Hank Green
Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom… — Thomas Szasz
Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door. — Charles Finch
If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals,… — Unknown Author
One of my Secrets of Adulthood is: Most decisions don't require extensive research. — Gretchen Rubin
The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arriveï»¿ at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence and arrive at… — Paul Tournier

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