Adulthood Quotes

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The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

Just try to stay a child as long as you can. Don't force into adulthood.

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

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

Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.

For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it.

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

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.

The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.

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

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

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.

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

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

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.

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

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

In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you.

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.

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

Life is not what you expected it to be.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

But for me, to get the tattoo was part of moving into adulthood. Making a choice that is permanent and that I'll have to stick with.

Psychological adulthood is by no means a universal attainment.

I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling with some serious depression issues.

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.

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.

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.

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?