Adulthood Quotes - Page 10

• Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.

  Wes Fesler

  Children, Honesty, Honest

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• If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch with nature more than science. ... Too few natural areas remain; both by intent and by indifference we have insulated ourselves from the wilderness that produced us.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Nature, Science, Years

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• The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That's when she needs you at her side.

  Tom Brokaw

  Meaningful, Daughter, Father

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• For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving-girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.

  Beth Ditto

  Girl, Morning, Revenge

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2007.

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• For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and glass and metal turn into an empty field. The snow is falling softly now, and I can faintly see the city's skyline up ahead, the buildings just a shade darker than the clouds.

  Veronica Roth

  Lying, Fall, Glasses

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• The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

  Joe Hill

  Believe, Differences, Imagination

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• I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories never made sense, and they were slow to start. They made me feel like there were secrets, Masonic, mythic secrets, to adulthood. Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies?

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Islands, Secret

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 18, 2013.

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• The prospects were depressing: Adulthood meant that I'd have to stop having fun and do something I didn't really want to do for the rest of my life – which was apparently a considerable chunk of time.

  Bruce Campbell

  Depressing, Fun, Want

  Bruce Campbell (2015). “If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor”, p.37, Macmillan

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• Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

  Stephen King

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Stephen King (2016). “Christine”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Believe, Struggle, Birth

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both.

  Nora Ephron

  Home, Night, Unhappy

  Nora Ephron (1991). “Nora Ephron Collected”

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• Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

  Rumer Godden

  People, Hurtful, Three

  Rumer Godden (2011). “The Greengage Summer”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out of them by life experience and adulthood. So, they still are very much alive with that kind of magical thinking which enables an actor to believe they're in these circumstances and make them real to you.

  Nicolas Cage

  Children, Real, Believe

  "Knowing - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The moment you decide that you're a grownup now, and therefore must put away foolish things like staying out all night or cruising down strange highways is the moment you will lose that ineffable glow of youth. If you don't believe me, look around. Study those people who would rather go to shopping malls than dance halls, who think the height of depravity is bidding two no trump with only fifteen points. Every single one of these people has a stringy neck.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Believe, Thinking, Night

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• Life is not what you expected it to be.

  Lauren Bacall

  Life Is, Expected

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• The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Discovery, Adults, World

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• The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.

  Paula Poundstone

  Sleep, Definitions, Want

  "At 59, What is My Favorite Cheap Thrill?" by Roz Warren, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2013.

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• [Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Stuff, Excuse, Stop Making Excuses

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• I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

  Anne Tyler

  Book, Childhood, Waiting

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• When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context.

  John Green

  Education, Jobs, Party

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• where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when, out of negligence or contempt, it overlooks the need of children to be reared in a family ... or when, in the midst of plenty, some families cannot give their children adequate food and shelter, safe activity and rest, and an opportunity to grow into full adulthood as people who can care for and cherish other human beings like themselves.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Children, Opportunity

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• one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing.

  Kate Millett

  Blessing

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.63, University of Illinois Press

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• But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.

  Eva Figes

  Childhood, Sake, Unbearable

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• gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.

  James Randi

  Children, Blanket

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• There is 'a time to be born' - and born again, free of accumulated, encrusted sores of fears and prejudices, old hates, of cancerous wounds, old prides. And there is a time to die - a time for the blue, unburied child of our young years to be decently interred - and to get on with the living.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Children, Hate, Pride

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