Adulthood Quotes

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wr...

He began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death wit...

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

I remember everything,' Bette Midler flatly notes. 'But you know how in life, you tend to hold grudg...

You see, I don't think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think oth...

I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every...

Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had becom...

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager ...

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages ...

They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed ...

It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growi...

I mean, all I do here is do the work that my bosses tell me to do the way they tell me to do it. I d...

This was when he first suspected that the kindly child-loving God extolled by his headmistress might...

In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into ...

And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ...

You are young," said my father. "You won't get any younger even if you clean your teeth twice a day....

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The differe...

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The differe...

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that wil...

I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the ear...

A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.

The child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. ...

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was...

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath...

There's something to that in both directions," said Ekaterin mildly. "Nothing is more guaranteed to ...

I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I wa...

Adulthood is a wonderful thing and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts. I believe the...

People talk about how wonderful the world must seem to children, and that's true enough. But childre...

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young ...

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that gr...

His body had almost no hair and his naked little circumcised johnson was nearly as pale as the rest ...

We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our...

When you’re a child the world forbears you, allows you your flights of imagination, your feelings of...

You love because you want to need someone the way you did when you were a child, and have them need ...

Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life h...

Never tell a child that something it’s too hard

Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is ...

Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometim...

I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either....

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more compl...

Oh, monsters are scared', said Lettie. 'And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her fre...

I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like child...

I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to l...

He was still a kid inside. His body had grown, stretched, towered, tanned its skin, hardened its mus...

Now, why did Kitty, who was the falsest thing on earth, who was in tune with every kind of falsity, ...

The adult world may seem a cold and empty place, with no fairies and no Father Christmas, no Toyland...

Not to grow up properly is to retain our 'caterpillar' quality from childhood (where it is a virtue)...

Interesting, Miles thought. Like himself, Father Mark, as a child, had been reassured by the imagine...

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in ...

Bloom of adulthood. Try a whiff of that. On your back in the dark you remember. Ah you remember. Clo...

In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human b...

He knew he could never jingle change in his pocket or park his car like a confident adult, he was th...

But grownups were always in a turmoil, every possible action muddied over by thoughts of the consequ...

I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.

Stupid girl. You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the so...

You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult ki...

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the ti...