Children Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

— John Fowles

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.

— Nelson Rodrigues

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

— Ellen Goodman

“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up:that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Adulthood involves learning to conclusively bury a great many of our hopes.”

— Alain de Botton

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.”

— Stephen King

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

The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.

— Paula Poundstone

“I don't think age has much to do with adulthood”

— Alice Oseman

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