Coming Of Age Quotes

Coming Of Age Quote of the day

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

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

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.

Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.

I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple.

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

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

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.

The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a new way. Hard work, but that's its nature.

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity.

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

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

And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing.

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.

Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.

But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.

I enjoy films where two characters are coming of age, just different ages. That's why I love 'Paper Moon' so much.

I work in a restaurant in an airport in Taiwan. I am eighteen years old and I don’t like my job because everyone gets on planes and leaves. And I want to leave too.

Congratulations, " she said. "You win.

I push through physical pain. Life hurts. I enjoy the positives.

She might have been there for you in the aftermath, but I was there when everything came crashing down.

And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.

All our good and bad memories—they were like our B-side diaries. They were like those songs on old dusty punk albums that no one listened to anymore.

Partying and dancing have never been my thing, but drinking I could do with reasonable familiarity and skills. I decided to begin there.

I’ve lived for nothing and might soon die for less. My Life, Part One will be cancelled midway through the first season

For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right.

Don't read their rubbish... Read mine ☺️

I guess this means we're uck-fayed, don't it Mikee?

I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.

I see the same sky above me, the same stars and moon, but nothing will ever be the same for me, because I love you.” Whoever said love was grand evidently had never been in love.

The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure.

I decided to write the book I wanted to read

There's something to say about inspiration - when it comes into your life...the feeling is insatiable.

Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...

Life was like that when you were fifteen and knobby-kneed and you only had a handful of choices. Your world was small and cruel and narrow-minded and breathtaking.

Every time I think about that girl, my mind commits a sin.

True love is what makes life worth living.

I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable.

what I like and what I need’s two different things.