Adulthood Quote by John Fowles Download Open image “Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.” — John Fowles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adulthood Age Identity Self Self knowledge Stage
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which a person… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing. — J W Jepson Copy Share Image
Adulthood has its own way of helping you realize who is important in your life. — Crystal Yang Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this implies having… — Jane Ridley Copy Share Image
Every stage of life longs for others. When one is young and eager, one aspires to maturity, and everyone older would like nothing better… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. — John Fowles 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
“I wondered what a man I had encountered the day before on the plane en route to Chicago's O'Hare airport would have made of… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
“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
