Adulthood Quotes - Page 6

• There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

  Jena Malone

  Youth, Graduates, Realizing

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• Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.

  Neal Shusterman

  People, Can Do, Horrific

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• ... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances acting in childhood do have a persisting effect on adult disease rates, in addition to influences acting in adulthood.

  Michael Marmot

  Health, Childhood, Acting

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• Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence, Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider's look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.

  Akhil Sharma

  Honesty, Voice, Doctors

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• I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]

  Dani Shapiro

  Mother, Childhood, Trying

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• Our rising generation is worthy of our best efforts to support and strengthen them in their journey to adulthood. … In every action we take, in every place we go, with every Latter-day Saint young person we meet, we need to have an increased awareness of the need for strengthening, nurturing, and being an influence for good in their lives

  Ronald A. Rasband

  Journey, Best Effort, Support

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• If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion--and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.

  Alain de Botton

  Baby, Disappointment, Children

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• Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

  Adam Phillips

  Believe, Childhood, Solutions

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• I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents.

  Rick Riordan

  Writing, Thinking, Two

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• I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to find this sweet spot where he had gotten tall and had clearly grown up but still retained many boyish qualities, including a boyish charm.

  Lee Unkrich

  Sweet, Childhood, Quality

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• Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood.

  Sandra Scarr

  Change, Children, Past

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• How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and competitive but still nurturing and friendly, sweet yet sharp. We know as working women that we can't quite have it all, but that hasn't stopped us from wanting it all for them.

  Anne Roiphe

  Mother, Daughter, Sweet

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• Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.

  Virginia Satir

  Jobs, Children, Two

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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• As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Children, Wonder, Lost

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos'". kuow.org. March 6, 2014.

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• The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.

  Kevin Powers

  Uncles, Father, Military

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• A car is a big thing for anyone going into adulthood, it's a big seminal moment.

  Michael Bay

  Car, Moments, Bigs

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.

  Gwen Ifill

  Children, Moving, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'

  J.K. Simmons

  People, Important, Evolve

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

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• I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain remote African tribes there'd be some incredible four day rites of passage ceremony involving tattooing and potent hallucinogenic drugs extracted from tree-frogs, and village elders smearing my body with monkey blood, but here,rites of passage is all about three new pairs of pants and stuffing your duvet in a bin-liner.

  David Nicholls

  Believe, Independent, African Tribes

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.25, Villard

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• Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.

  Emily Giffin

  Regret, Scary, Feelings

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.167, Macmillan

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• At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (representational processes of memory and narrative) of mental life. The matter of the mind matters for secure attachments.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Memories, Emotional, Attachment

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• Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Bores You

  "What It Is". Stand-up by Dylan Moran, www.youtube.com. May 15, 2009.

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• We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside ourskin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes--and knows it.

  Frank Pittman

  Wise, Strong, Growing Up

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• For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.

  Anne Tyler

  Book, Writing, Sleep

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• Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

  Mandy Moore

  Mind, Mark

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