Adulthood Quote by David Sedaris Download Open image “As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.” — David Sedaris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adulthood Children Philosophy of Mind
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It was hard to reassure grown-ups when you weren't certain yourself what you were feeling and thinking—when thoughts dissolved before you could name them. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
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I've always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it. — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think. — Holly Near Copy Share Image
I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I never thought when I was a kid that I would become an adult. I never thought of myself as having any sort of… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I think 'growing up' would mean that you are incredibly tolerant and easygoing, liked everything, curious about the world because you weren't so egotistically… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
“Plenty of animals had pets, but few were more devoted than the mouse, who owned a baby corn snake—“A rescue snake, she’d be quick… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“never fall asleep in a Dumpster, never underestimate a bee, never drive a convertible behind a flatbed truck, never get old, never get drunk… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“It was a father, one hand resting teapot-style on his hip, and the other - what would be the spout - formed into a… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“A Japanese woman we’d met in Paris came to the apartment yesterday and spent several hours explaining our appliances. The microwave, the water kettle,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
One thing I like about the United States, and I kind of miss about the United States, is there's an election coming up here… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“You have how many children in your family?" the teacher would ask. "I'm guessing you must be Catholic, am I right?” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Like most seasoned phonies, I roundly suspect that everyone is as disingenuous as I am.” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“You just take and take don´t you? Out there with your thumb in the air—not a care in the world, just grabbing whatever you… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression:… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Two things suck about becoming an adult male - paying taxes and getting a finger in your butt. — Guy Code Copy Share Image
You can only pretend for so long before reality hits and you realize he/she is not who you thought or what you truly want. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“English: "Being an adult doesn't mean killing the child we once were; it means being able to protect him." Česky: „Být dospělým neznamená zabít… — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
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“Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'" Rose chuckled. "But usually, they're just… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need. — Chris Hogan Copy Share Image
In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
