Adulthood Quote by Pete Docter

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness,…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is…

— Cesare Pavese

“What we rarely see receive is a picture of adulthood that represents it as the ideal it should be. (...) What better way to…

— Susan Neiman

I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.

— Umberto Eco

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

— Bill Watterson

“Other cultures make a clear delineation between childhood and adulthood; there are rites of passages and initiation ceremonies to mark these transitions. People expect…

— Jeff Goins

The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent.

— Polixeni Papapetrou

The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And…

— Richard Dawkins

Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.

— Penny Junor

Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be…

— Sandra Scarr

“...the changes during adolescence are not something to just get through; they are qualities we actually need to hold on to in order to…

— Daniel J. Siegel

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of…

— Russell Baker