Adulthood Quotes - Page 12

• Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.

  Helen Fisher

  Children, Average, Europe

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• There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Impulse Control, Childhood, Bipolar

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• Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood.

  Richard Peck

  Struggle, Voice, Young

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• I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

  Adam Savage

  Thinking, Suffering, Realization

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• More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of adulthood. Armour encumbers, restricts the body and soul within it. But it also protects. Blows are blunted. Feelings lose their edge, leaving us to suffer naught but a plague of bruises, and, after a time, bruises fade.

  Steven Erikson

  Children, Blow, Leaving

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)”, p.160, Random House

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• Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to old age. They meet a need in the psychological or spiritual nature of humans that has absolutely nothing to do with science. To try to turn a myth into a science, or a science into a myth, is an insult to myths, an insult to religion, and an insult to science. In attempting to do this, creationists have missed the significance, meaning, and sublime nature of myths. They took a beautiful story of creation and re-creation and ruined it.

  Michael Shermer

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Struggle

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• No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one will ever look at the earth in the same way. Man had to free himself from earth to perceive both its diminutive place in a solar system and its inestimable value as a life -fostering planet. As earthmen, we may have taken another step into adulthood. We can see our planet earth with detachment, with tenderness, with some shame and pity, but at last also with love.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Taken, Moon, Men

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• Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.

  Jon Winokur

  Funny, Dog, Play

  Jon Winokur (1993). “Mondo Canine”, Plume

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• Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the tasks of early adulthood-establishing independence and intimacy-burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships. She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Growing Up, Memories, Children

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• Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?

  Richard Paul Evans

  Children, Responsibility, Parenting

  Richard Paul Evans (2001). “The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

  Rachel Carson

  Beautiful, Children, Garden

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Kids

  Twitter post from Dec 30, 2013

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• As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

  David Sedaris

  Funny, Children, Growing Up

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• Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic interests of competitive societies but for its present value as a perishable piece of life itself.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Should Have, Childhood, Training

  Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.95, Broadway Books

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• If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

  Lisa Alther

  Food, Vegetables, Improvement

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• Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.

  Susan Sontag

  Hands, Way, Moral

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.114, Macmillan

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• I came from nothing out in the woods near Tallahassee, Florida. My mom was a single mom raising five of us. It wasn't easy but she found a way to raise us to adulthood. We made it somehow.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Mom, Florida, Woods

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• Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, War, Hero

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• Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.

  Sloane Crosley

  Crush, Ex Boyfriend, Dancing

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• Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.

  Ian Caldwell

  Ice, Childhood, Age

  Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

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• What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school 'values' reading what it really means is that the school intensely focuses on raising state-mandated reading test scores- the kind of reading our students will rarely, if ever, do in adulthood.

  Kelly Gallagher

  Teacher, Reading, Mean

  Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.7, Stenhouse Publishers

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• There’s no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It’s not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 — sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.

  Frances McDormand

  Teenager, Past, Hair

  "A Star Who Has No Time for Vanity" by Frank Bruni, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2014.

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• I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.

  Mary Ruefle

  Hate, Love Is, Childhood

  Mary Ruefle (2014). “Trances of the Blast”, p.12, Wave Books

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• There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood ...in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs.

  Raj Patel

  Real, Book, Years

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• A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.

  Rebecca Carroll

  Dream, Horse, Childhood

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