Adolescence Quote by Salman Rushdie

“adult life is full of hardship, childhood should be free of it.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“I think that every one , no matter how many troubles the may have when he grows up, ought to have a happy childhood…

— Jean Webster

“Surely one’s childhood concerns must be hard to encounter decades later, regardless of the life fallen between.”

— Ruthanna Emrys

“Past a certain point it is not interesting to think about childhood as the central drama and adulthood as its reprise.”

— Martha Cooley

“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.”

— John Boyne

“Not being in the present moment is so adultish.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He feels sorry for young people; their world is very much rougher than his had been. He is already at the age where he…

— T.K. Lamb

“As I get older I'm starting to sense that being a grown-up isn't nearly as much fun as children want to believe.”

— Wendy Mass

“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”

— Nick Joaquín

“he thinks that it is good to be a child, but it is also good to be a grownup and able to consider the…

— Stephen King

“It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it…

— Plato

“The irony of life is that the child begins to become an adult when he starts to live alone and he loses the security…

— Mark Curl