Adulthood Quote by Lisa Alther

“If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating her vegetables.”

— Lisa Alther

All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

— Ellen G. White

Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits…

— Anonymous

She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.

— Jenny Downham

Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.

— Arthur Baer

I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child.

— Graydon Carter

“Her mind still worked, her feet still moved, she could walk, though only with the help of a walker, but walk she did, and…

— Dubravka Ugrešić

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our…

— Herman Melville

She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

What would Kathy say if she knew I let the whole crew eat those Oreos when they never did eat their carrot sticks (which…

— Dean Hughes

“She had grown up knowing you cared for the one who had fallen and couldn't get up. She had also grown up knowing you…

— Stephen King