Adulthood Quotes - Page 7

• At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you are in between childhood and adulthood.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Personality, Childhood, Periods

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than "married" is considered temporary and not worthy of honor.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  America, Honor, Married

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• When we believe in our child fully, we trust that they are doing the very best they can at every moment, given their age, past experience and present circumstances. It is this kind of trust that I mean when I talk about parenting being on their child's side. Having someone dependably 'on their side' is absolutely critical if a child is to grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. If we aren't on their side, who will be?

  Jan Hunt

  Children, Believe, Mean

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• Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly

  Hank Green

  Silly, Thoughtful, Stills

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• It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep as much of that childhood with us as we grow into adulthood, as we can muster... And even after we're past the point of being able to play the game with any skill, if we love it, then it's like Peter Pan - we remain boys forever, we don't die.

  John Thorn

  Children, Boys, Past

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• With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age—are so beautifully revealed here, a trenchant reminder that our pasts are alive inside of us. There are psychologists who can write, and writers who can psychologize, but rarely have the two met on the page with such moving, profound results.

  Dani Shapiro

  Uplifting, Memories, Moving

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• All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our own nature as programmable entities. Literally, each of us may be our programs, nothing more, nothing less.

  John C. Lilly

  World, May, Today

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• I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put on a pedestal and I was supposed to be this icon or this image of what a professional athlete was supposed to be. I felt like I just got stuck trying to be someone else and I forgot who I actually was.

  Ricky Williams

  Athlete, Nfl, Icons

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• People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both in their youth and in adulthood-intelligent, responsive, empathic, and highly sensitive. They will take pleasure in life and will not feel any need to kill or even hurt others or themselves. They will use their power to defend themselves, not to attack others. They will not be able to do otherwise than respect and protect those weaker than themselves, including their children, because this is what they have learned from their own experience.

  Alice Miller

  Hurt, Children, Honesty

  "The Roots of Violence" by Alice Miller, www.alice-miller.com. 2015.

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• I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

  Freddy Adu

  Thinking, Everything Happens For A Reason, Made

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• Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful teaching studio; wrote thousands of letters; traveled widely; attended the theater religiously; played cards, billiards, and bocce; and rode horseback for exercise. Not bad for someone portrayed as a giggling idiot in the movies.

  Robert Greenberg

  Children, Teaching, Successful

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• I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.

  Alex Winston

  Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable journeys into adulthood and lives of their own. But I can celebrate those journeys by bearing witness to them, by paying attention, and, perhaps most of all, by carrying on with my own growth and becoming. Now it dawns on me that the only way I can figure out what I'm meant to be doing is to try to understand who I'm meant to be...I will not waste this life, not one hour, not one minute. I will not take for granted the blessing of our being here...I will give thanks.

  Katrina Kenison

  Children, Blessing, Journey

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• Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Childhood, Becoming, Middle

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.26, Random House

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• Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Children, Sorry, Maturity

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking, drugs, and other destructive behaviors. But as we move from childhood to adulthood, we find the peer pressure changes. Daniel 3:2 notes "the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces" were there. I'm sure more than one of them thought they needed to keep their job with all of its benefits. Not much has changed in two-and-a-half millennia.

  O. S. Hawkins

  Children, Drinking, Moving

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.

  Virginia Satir

  Strong, Self Esteem, Responsibility

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• My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Distance, Boys

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.520, A&C Black

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• I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of infancy. I survived a difficult childhood by traveling on the backs of horses, and in adulthood the pattern didn't change.

  Monty Roberts

  Horse, Memories, Fog

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• I tried to take a few community college classes, but it got in the way of music, so I stopped. I had real life college and traveling on the road college. It's like a segue into adulthood, like living on your own for the first time.

  Alex Winston

  Real, College, Community

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus.

  John Banville

  Summer, Long, Childhood

  John Banville (2008). “The Sea”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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• Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

  Robert Bly

  Views, Half, Want

  Source: www.utne.com

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• Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

  Pete Townshend

  Teenage, Past, Trouble

  "Spokesman for a generation", www.cnn.com. January 14, 2003.

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• Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood, a great option is to expose them to computer programming in their youth.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Kids, Creative, Want

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• Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

  Margaret Cho

  Running, Keys, Childhood

  "It Gets Better: How I Overcame Childhood Bullying" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2012.

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