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Adulthood Quotes by Thomas Szasz
- 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…
- A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
- Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a…
More Adulthood Quotes
- What is an adult? A child blown up by age. — Simone de Beauvoir
- Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally… — Margaret Cho
- If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools… — Carol Bellamy
- We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I… — Sydney J. Harris
- The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts. — Robert Redford
- Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child. — Wes Fesler
- If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept… — Charles Lindbergh
- The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those… — Tom Brokaw
- Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste ears, trying to get someone to give… — Lois McMaster Bujold
- A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl
- People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both… — Alice Miller