Quotes about Adulthood

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. Votes: 6

One of my Secrets of Adulthood is: Most decisions don't require extensive research. Votes: 5

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. Votes: 4

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood. Votes: 4

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. Votes: 4

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood? Votes: 4

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

To be adult is to be alone. Votes: 3

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control. Votes: 3

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood. Votes: 3

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child. Votes: 3

What is an adult? A child blown up by age. Votes: 3

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self. Votes: 3

A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure. Votes: 3

Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people. Votes: 3

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood. Votes: 3

Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines. Votes: 3

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. Votes: 3

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. Votes: 3

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. Votes: 3

For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it, Votes: 3

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit. Votes: 3

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to. Votes: 3

Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are. Votes: 3

One of my 'Secrets of Adulthood' is: Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure it. Votes: 3

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

[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. Votes: 3

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.' Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do. Votes: 3

I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives? Votes: 3

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up. Votes: 3

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. Votes: 3

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift. Votes: 3

The prospects were depressing: Adulthood meant that I'd have to stop having fun and do something I didn't really want to do for the rest of my life – which was apparently a considerable chunk of time. Votes: 3

Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in. Votes: 3

I did 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood,' and that's what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do 'hood films and be the guy swinging baseball bats and saying 'Yo Blood' and beating up others in the street. Votes: 3

Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting. Votes: 3

There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 — sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face. Votes: 3

When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter. Votes: 3

24/7, 365 days, everybody gettin' paid Go crazy! Votes: 1

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults Votes: 1

A Gentleman attracts the attention of many, but only has eyes for his own lady. Votes: 1

People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.' Votes: 1

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood. Votes: 1

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell Votes: 1

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger. Votes: 1

What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness. Votes: 1

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace. Votes: 1

Progress among the youngest children is especially important because we know that preventing obesity at an early age helps young people maintain a healthy weight into adulthood. Votes: 1

I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood. Votes: 1

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood. Votes: 1

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they are no longer than what they are now, and that's psychologically low-grade devastating. Votes: 1

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences. Votes: 1

When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, Never keep your mind aler Votes: 1

I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like. Grown-ups behaved rationally and calmly. Grown-ups worked during the day and came home at night and sat down for drinks and passed the evening quietly. Votes: 1

One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection. Votes: 1

Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood. Votes: 0

Psychological adulthood is by no means a universal attainment. Votes: 0

Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind. Votes: 0

The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep. Votes: 0

gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood. Votes: 0

I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive. Votes: 0

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind. Votes: 0

Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school. Votes: 0

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood. Votes: 0

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door. Votes: 0

The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent. Votes: 0

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood. Votes: 0

Life is three hours journey; childhood, adulthood & old-hood; filled with inspiration, perspiration and desperation. Votes: 0

The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts. Votes: 0

Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child. Votes: 0

People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood. Votes: 0

College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood. Votes: 0

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. Votes: 0

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts. Votes: 0

Just try to stay a child as long as you can. Don't force into adulthood. Votes: 0

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. Votes: 0

A car is a big thing for anyone going into adulthood, it's a big seminal moment. Votes: 0

one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing. Votes: 0

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight. Votes: 0

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. Votes: 0

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow. Votes: 0

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. Votes: 0

I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them. Votes: 0

The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life. Votes: 0

Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood... Votes: 0

The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood. Votes: 0

One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do. Votes: 0

Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence. Votes: 0

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger. Votes: 0

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence Votes: 0

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it? Votes: 0

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness. Votes: 0

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood. Votes: 0

Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late. Votes: 0

It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood. Votes: 0

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries. Votes: 0

Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly Votes: 0

I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood. Votes: 0

the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood. Votes: 0

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood. Votes: 0

Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. Votes: 0

Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young. Votes: 0

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. Votes: 0

I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life. Votes: 0

Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood. Votes: 0

The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult? Votes: 0

Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience. Votes: 0

I'm fascinated to see the future of social media and also how the generation who grew up with it will evolve into adulthood. Votes: 0

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so. Votes: 0

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed. Votes: 0

I can see why you opted out of Knight training," I countered. "They'd have "˜accidentally' killed you before you made it to adulthood. Votes: 0

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables. Votes: 0

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesnt have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Even in early adulthood, men can't be told what to wear; they can only be subtly moved by example, encouragement, and a generally sophisticated atmosphere. Votes: 0

Kids who enter 'adulthood' without any strong attachments to people who know and care about them have a rough road ahead, to say the least. Votes: 0

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous. Votes: 0

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood. Votes: 0

I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I've seen my mother and she hasn't asked, "˜Why that shirt?' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human. Votes: 0

Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened. Votes: 0

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way. Votes: 0

Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood. Votes: 0

After all, isn't that what really draws the line between childhood and adulthood, knowing that you are solely responsible for yourself? If so, then my childhood ended at fifteen. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The adult were once young.The young have not yet attained adulthood.The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences. Votes: 0

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood. Votes: 0

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences. Votes: 0

Part of the thrill of guiding children into adulthood is the release. But it's also a parent's greatest act of surrender. Still, you have to let them go. Start now. Votes: 0

If you manage to make it to some semblance of adulthood, just showing up turns out to be one of the kindest, most selfless things you can do for someone. Votes: 0

Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme . . . and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood. Votes: 0

I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution. Votes: 0

Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode. Votes: 0

Into adulthood through which everyone is always in a different way. Do not feel left out because of it. So, do not worry about it. Since everyone has experienced the same thing. Votes: 0

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood. Votes: 0

I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I spent five years of my childhood in Port Elgin and came back to spend another five years of my young adulthood there as well, including the years in which I was first published. Votes: 0

Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course. Votes: 0

Optimism was for children. Once you reached adulthood then you had to join the rest of the world as a realist - life was a bag of shit you were expected to pay for. Votes: 0

Many of the differences that cause students to be excluded in school are actually the same qualities or skills that other people are going to admire, respect or value about that person in adulthood. Votes: 0

If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff. Votes: 0