Coming Of Age Quotes

• I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

  James Joyce

  Birthday, Mother, Children

  James Joyce (1976). “Selected letters of James Joyce”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

  Tom Wilson

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Wisdom

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• There is a time for everything - a time for being born and a time for coming of age. There is a time for death, too.

  Barbara Bel Geddes

  Death, Age, Dying

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• These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

  Tablo

  Expectations, Secret, Age

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• One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Motivational, Strong Women, Philosophy

  The Second Sex vol. 2, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949) (translation by H. M. Parshley)

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• I would definitely write to the kid that I was before, to embrace the moment. I think that often times when you're coming of age or growing up you look forward and you work really hard instead of sitting back and relaxing and enjoying the moment.

  Sean Mackin

  Growing Up, Writing, Kids

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• The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

  Cilla Black

  Age, Can Do, I Can

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• Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to depend on another, nor to feel she must prove her strength by competing with another. In the past, she has swung between these two opposite poles of dependence and competition, of Victorianism and Feminism. Both extremes throw her off balance; neither is the center, the true center of being a whole woman. She must find her true center alone. She must become whole.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Past, Essence, Opposites

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• Music and time have such an interesting relationship. Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life and it really is like you're still there. That's why the music of our youth ends up being particularly powerful. The coming of age music that you grab a hold of as the symbol or the expression of your independence and hopes for the future and anger and rebellion or whatever it is you're feeling is so powerful for the rest of your life when you hear it.

  Jennifer Egan

  Song, Powerful, Fall

  "Jennifer Egan’s Novel Approach". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. May 27, 2010.

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• People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

  John Doerr

  Technology, People, Community

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• Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Age, Seriousness, Dullness

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.10, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

  Erica Jong

  Divorce, Age, Generations

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.165, Penguin

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• There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.

  Shailene Woodley

  Age, Film, Realistic

  "‘The Spectacular Now’ Star Shailene Woodley On First Sex, Teen Drinking and Why ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Feels Like an Indie Film" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. January 21, 2013.

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• But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

  Will Estes

  Age, Stories, Breakfast

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• We become male automatically because of the Y chromosome and the little magic peanut, but if we are to become men we need the helpof other men--we need our fathers to model for us and then to anoint us, we need our buddies to share the coming-of-age rituals with us and to let us join the team of men, and we need myths of heroes to inspire us and to show us the way.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Team, Hero

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• In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Age, One Day, Networking

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Motivation, Writing, Black Youth

  "Trust between the police and the black community is still broken" by Linton Kwesi Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

  Emily Giffin

  Book, Character, Age

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• Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fun, Giving Up, Believe

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Planning your own coming-of-age experience may wither you prematurely, but just think of it this way: If you can get through this, childbirth should be a breeze.

  Mimi Pond

  Thinking, Age, May

  Mimi Pond (1993). “A Groom of One's Own: And Other Bridal Accessories”, Plume Books

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• The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

  Mae Whitman

  Meaningful, Genre Is, Age

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

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• Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business.

  Susan Cain

  Age, Quality, Fascination

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.23, Broadway Books

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• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Health, Medicine

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• When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Age, Rebel, Details

  "Stephen Chbosky talks “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, Blu-ray extras, and his favorite teen films". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. February 13, 2012.

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• The convention of the coming-of-age story and the love story were literally abandoned - because they had to be - and a new kind of coming-of-age and love story emerged that required a different kind of telling the story.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Age, And Love, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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