Adulthood Quotes
270 Adulthood quotes by 230 unique authors
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I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was…
— Willie Aames
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There’s no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It’s not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No one is supposed…
— Frances McDormand
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What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school 'values' reading…
— Kelly Gallagher
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Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently as five years ago. But in the…
— Neal Stephenson
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Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not expire. It takes…
— David Richo
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We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.
— Katherine Dunn
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To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.
— Neil Postman
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As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in…
— Richard Leakey
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Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.
— Laura Marling
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Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make…
— Janet Napolitano
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When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.
— Rene Redzepi
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Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close…
— Kiki Smith
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People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.
— J.K. Simmons
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Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this…
— Jack Canfield
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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but…
— Theodore Dalrymple
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You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them…
— Dave Eggers
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I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained…
— Lake Bell
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... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances acting in childhood…
— Michael Marmot
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I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until…
— Richard Griffiths
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Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.
— Ruben Hinojosa
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Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In…
— Akhil Sharma
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Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of…
— Susan Sontag
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I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked, ‘Why that shirt?’
— Scott Simon
Who Wrote These Adulthood Quotes
230 authors contributed a total of 270 Adulthood Quotes, led by these top contributors: