Adulthood Quotes - Page 4

• Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.

  Uwe Reinhardt

  America, Massachusetts, Firsts

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• I've been told that certain species of fish will grow according to the size of their environment. Put them in a tiny aquarium, and they remain small even at adulthood. Release them into a huge natural body of water, and they grow into their intended size. People are similar. If they live in a harsh and limiting environment, they stay small. But put them someplace that encourages growth, and they will expand to reach their potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Aquariums, People

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• One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it's a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction, that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas?

  Kelly Williams Brown

  Running, Pandas, Paper

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• Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

  Janet Napolitano

  Children, Educational, School

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• Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

  Ellen Goodman

  Loss, Age, Lines

  Ellen Goodman (2010). “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.

  Kiki Smith

  Sibling, America, People

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• The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Ordinary World, Games, Generations

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• Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  White, People, House

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• I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.

  Richard Griffiths

  Kids, Normal, Weight

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• I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.

  Lake Bell

  Fashion, School, Kids

  "Lake Bell Tells Us How To Make It In America". Interview with Johanna Cox, www.elle.com. February 12, 2010.

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• You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.

  Dave Eggers

  Smart, Kids, People

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• Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but not very far. That is why it is possible for 14 year olds now to establish friendships with 26 year olds - because they know by the age of 14 all they are ever going to know.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Children, Growing Up, Years

  "Our Culture, What’s Left Of It". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 31, 2005.

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• One of life's fundamental truths states, "Ask and you shall receive." As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Kids, Rejection

  "'How Am I Doing?' The One Question That Can Change All Of Your Relationships" by Jack Canfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2009.

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• As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in this respect: most mammalian species, including apes, progress almost directly from infancy to adulthood.

  Richard Leakey

  Children, Unique, Parent

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• Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

  Neil Postman

  Reading, Childhood, Scourge

  Neil Postman (2011). “The Disappearance of Childhood”, p.13, Vintage

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• The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Taken, Adventure

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• We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

  Katherine Dunn

  Innocence, Forgetfulness, Stamina

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.150, Vintage

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• I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked, ‘Why that shirt?’

  Scott Simon

  Mother, Might, T Shirt

  Scott Simon (2015). “Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime”, p.201, Macmillan

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• I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.

  Vera Farmiga

  Simple, Childhood, Tragedy

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently as five years ago. But in the bleak light of full adulthood, which is to one's early twenties as Sunday morning is to Saturday night, he can clearly see what it really amounts to: He's broke and unemployed.

  Neal Stephenson

  Morning, Sunday, Night

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.21, Spectra

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• Can you remember when you didn't want to sleep? Isn't it inconceivable? I guess the definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.

  Paula Poundstone

  Sleep, Definitions, Want

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• Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not expire. It takes conscious work to undo them. Ironically, as long as we keep using defenses, we actually maintain the original force of the fear.

  David Richo

  Fear, Real, Long

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• Growing up is loving what you can afford to.

  Babs Deal

  Growing Up, Growing

  BABS H. DEAL (1968). “THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN”

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• In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Thinking, Gun

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Being a senior in high school means you're not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your dreams and aspirations, whether that's applying for college, joining the military, or seeing the world. It's never too early to start thinking of your future, so use these high school senior year quotes about following dreams to inspire yourself and those around. Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.

  James Dean

  Senior, Dream, Thinking Of You

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