Adulthood Quotes - Page 5

• Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child. We tend to glorify adulthood and wisdom and worldly prudence, but the Gospel reverses all this. The Gospel says that the inescapable condition of entrance into the divine fellowship is that we turn and become as a little child.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Children, Challenges, Ordinary

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• People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.

  John Scott

  Teenager, Responsibility, People

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• Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Childhood, Different

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• I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

  Mel Brooks

  Blood, Sugar, Imbalance

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• America has tolerated inequality because people think they can get ahead. If you have immobility on top of inequality, then people are not going to be happy campers. If you're stuck on the bottom and there just isn't much churning in society and you're stuck there through your adulthood, that's not a nice life to look forward to.

  Thomas B. Edsall

  Nice, Thinking, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Let's say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person's life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I'd just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world.

  John Wayne

  Joy, World, Problem

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• The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent.

  Polixeni Papapetrou

  Parent, Transition, Exciting

  "Stories from the Other Side: Polixeni Papapetrou Exhibits at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, NYC". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. April 29, 2013.

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• The goal of my philanthropic work has always been to make sure that every child has a chance to live up to his or her potential. That means our work won't be done until every child has access to quality education from early childhood to adulthood.

  Shakira

  Children, Mean, Goal

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• After all, isn't that what really draws the line between childhood and adulthood, knowing that you are solely responsible for yourself? If so, then my childhood ended at fifteen.

  LIZ

  Knowing, Childhood, Fifteen

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• I'm the most passionate about pushing the realization that there's the joy of love and kindness and sharing, all of these basic qualities, on people who are suffering from adulthood. By these people, I mean, I really feel bad. I think that in their sadness, they're destroying the world. The way that they're destroying the world manifests itself in all these various causes that you have banding together all over the place.

  Alex Ebert

  Kindness, Sadness, Mean

  "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros | Alex Ebert Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Milk is for babies. Human beings are the only species that drinks milk into adulthood and besides that we prefer to drink the milk of another species (enslaved cows and goats), and we have come to consider it normal when, it is actually a pretty perverse form of sexual abuse!

  Sharon Gannon

  Baby, Drink Milk, Abuse

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Children, Childhood, Poverty

  "Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty" by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

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• Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors.

  Thomas Sowell

  Teacher, Responsibility, Years

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• Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through my childhood and now my adulthood; I lost my brother at a young age. He got hit by a car right in front of me. I had to be strong for my mom.

  Adrian Peterson

  Mom, Brother, Jesus

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• I'm fascinated to see the future of social media and also how the generation who grew up with it will evolve into adulthood.

  Shailene Woodley

  Media, Generations, Social

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood." Those were my thoughts, and this was how this crazy book [Winter Journal] was composed. I've never seen a book with pictures like at the end, pictures related to things you've read before.

  Paul Auster

  Crazy, Book, Writing

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy, Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the very experiences that will help kids grow up to be the empowered, creative, brave problem-solvers that they can and must be.

  Gever Tulley

  Growing Up, Kids, Childhood

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• I never really recovered from the shock of discovering that women do what we do; they save their best pairs for the nights when they are going to sleep with somebody. When you live with a woman, these faded, shrunken tatty scraps suddenly appear on radiators all over the house; your lascivious schoolboy dreams of adulthood as a time when you are surrounded by exotic lingerie for ever and ever amen...those dreams crumble to dust.

  Nick Hornby

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.57, Penguin

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• War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

  Ru Freeman

  War, Childhood, Youth

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Yeah, we were looking for a way to represent adulthood and the passing into adulthood. And I think, for me personally and a lot of the folks that I work with, childhood is kind of a sacred, special kind of point in time that has a real joy and purity to it. And we sort of long on a daily basis to reach back and kind of grab onto that in some way.

  Pete Docter

  Real, Thinking, Long

  "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2015.

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• On the new Earth, as the awakened consciousness comes in, I would say the ego would develop in children and quickly become outgrown when they reach adulthood.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Children, Ego, Earth

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I can see why you opted out of Knight training,” I countered. “They’d have ‘accidentally’ killed you before you made it to adulthood.

  Jenna Black

  Knights, Training, Made

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• The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have a relationship with people. I think the biggest job of adulthood is to learn to imagine other people complexly.

  John Green

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Q&A: John Green & Nat Wolff on ‘Paper Towns’ Themes, Inside Jokes, Nicknames". Interview with Seth Kelley, variety.com. July 19, 2015.

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• I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent of peppers roasting over a fire, or what. I do know that flavors work their own ways under the skin, into the heart of longing. Where my kids are concerned I find myself hoping for the simplest things: that if someday they crave orchards where their kids can climb into the branches and steal apples, the world will have trees enough with arms to receive them.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Friday, Growing Up, Kids

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• One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Age, Might, Accepting

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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