Adulthood Quotes

270 Adulthood quotes by 230 unique authors

A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure. — Unknown Author
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… — Unknown Author
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
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 memory—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

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