Adulthood Quotes - Page 2

• I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

  Bob Newhart

  Children, Fun, Successful

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• To be adult is to be alone.

  Jean Rostand

  Time, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Pens‚es d'un biologiste (Thoughts of a Biologist, 1954) p. 134

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• Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

  George Orwell

  Time, Children, Humorous

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.

  Chris Hogan

  Adults, Needs, Want

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  When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Growing Up, Fear, Healing

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

  Bill Watterson

  Childhood

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Oil, Childhood, Age

  "Oil USA". Book by Thomas Chi, p. 7, December 1, 2011.

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• Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when the occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Struggle, People, Appreciate

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• When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.

  Jodie Foster

  Lonely, Growing Up, Book

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• 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 a minimum.

  Thomas Szasz

  Childhood, Fatherhood, Age

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• In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

  Nicholson Baker

  Cases

  Nicholson Baker (2010). “Mezzanine”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You might wish to revisit your understanding of the word everything.” Gregory turned to his mother. “Vocabulary and comprehension were never her strong suits.” Violet rolled her eyes. “Every day I marvel that the two of you managed to reach adulthood.” “Afraid we’d kill each other?” Gregory quipped. “No, that I’d do the job myself.

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Strong, Jobs

  Julia Quinn (2006). “On the way to the wedding”

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• Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

  David Mitchell

  Fog, Wind, Clouds

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• Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore. For most people it's the dessert - desirable, but no longer the main course.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Single, People, Overcoming

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• The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

  Germaine Greer

  Important, Fertility, Management

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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• One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Parent, Privilege

  "Woman dreads telling parents she's pregnant". "Ask Amy" with Amy Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. October 26, 2014.

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• Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

  Laura Marling

  Responsibility, Choices, Feelings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Part of the thrill of guiding children into adulthood is the release. But it's also a parent's greatest act of surrender. Still, you have to let them go. Start now.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Children, Parent, Thrill

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There”, p.68, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Children, Character, Years

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• According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his ability to ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth. Perhaps we should now grant our college degrees to young men who measure up to that standard.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, College, Men

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• If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

  P. D. James

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.23, Vintage

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• The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?

  Robert Bly

  Two, People, Adults

  Source: www.utne.com

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• Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.

  John Grogan

  Dog, Strong, Home

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• there is no gateway to maturity; there is no line that is crossed. Maturity is like a maze, one path leading to another; it is like a great building full of corridors, one turning into another. Did anybody ever reach the end, so there was a clear way ahead, so he could say, now I am rich with knowledge, now I know all the answers?

  Mignon G. Eberhart

  Wisdom, Maturity, Answers

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