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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. -- Thomas Szasz
One of my Secrets of Adulthood is: Most decisions don't require extensive research. -- Gretchen Rubin
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. -- Louise J. Kaplan
The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood. -- Germaine Greer
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. -- Walter Savage Landor
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood? -- Fran Lebowitz
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. -- Walt Disney
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. -- Bob Newhart
To be adult is to be alone. -- Jean Rostand
Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control. -- Juan Gabriel
Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood. -- Joy Browne
Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child. -- Nelson Rodrigues
What is an adult? A child blown up by age. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self. -- John Fowles
A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure. -- Rebecca Carroll
Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people. -- Neal Shusterman
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines. -- Megan Crane
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. -- Ellen Goodman
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. -- Nicholson Baker
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. -- Bruce Springsteen
For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it, -- Sarah Beeny
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit. -- Robert Charles Wilson
Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to. -- John Darnielle
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. -- Elizabeth Noble
One of my 'Secrets of Adulthood' is: Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure it. -- Gretchen Rubin
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. -- Thomas Szasz
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. -- Jim Henson
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. -- Scott Dikkers
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. -- Brandon Mull
[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. -- Dylan Moran
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.' -- Sydney J. Harris
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
[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. -- Marilyn vos Savant
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? -- Gail Sheehy
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. -- David Rakoff
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. -- George Orwell
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. -- Frances McDormand
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 â?? which was apparently a considerable chunk of time. -- Bruce Campbell
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. -- Ian Caldwell
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. -- Noel Clarke
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. -- Gail Sheehy
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 â?? sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally. Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face. -- Frances McDormand
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. -- Jodie Foster
24/7, 365 days, everybody gettin' paid Go crazy! -- Kanye West
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults -- Gore Vidal
A Gentleman attracts the attention of many, but only has eyes for his own lady. -- Thoughts of a real man
People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.' -- J. K. Simmons
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood. -- Larry David
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell -- Francois Muriac
I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger. -- Ricky Schroder
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness. -- Alison Gopnik
Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace. -- Robin Marantz Henig
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. -- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
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. -- Richard Griffiths
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. -- Janet Napolitano
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 -- Margaret Mead
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. -- Charlotte Kasl
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
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. -- Jena Malone
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. -- Marianne Williamson
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. -- Adam Savage
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 -- Rabindranath Tagore
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. -- Caroline Knapp
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. -- Jack Canfield
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. -- John Grogan
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. -- Kevin Powers
Childhood is for spoiling adulthood. -- Bill Watterson
Psychological adulthood is by no means a universal attainment. -- Frances G. Wickes
Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind. -- Mandy Moore
The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep. -- Paula Poundstone
gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood. -- James Randi
I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive. -- Mary Ruefle
Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind. -- Alex Shakar
Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school. -- Sarah Dessen
Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood. -- Neil Postman
Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door. -- Charles Finch
The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent. -- Polixeni Papapetrou
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood. -- Adam Phillips
Life is three hours journey; childhood, adulthood & old-hood; filled with inspiration, perspiration and desperation. -- Santosh Kalwar
The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts. -- Robert Redford
Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child. -- Wes Fesler
People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood. -- J. K. Simmons
College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood. -- Lee Thompson Young
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. -- Socrates
As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts. -- David Sedaris
Just try to stay a child as long as you can. Don't force into adulthood. -- Michael Jackson
I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. -- Anne Tyler
A car is a big thing for anyone going into adulthood, it's a big seminal moment. -- Michael Bay
one of the blessings of adulthood is that one is no longer addressed as a thing. -- Kate Millett
Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight. -- Laura Marling
If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. -- P. D. James
Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow. -- Mariella Frostrup
It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. -- Chris Van Hollen
I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them. -- Beth Ditto
The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life. -- Darren Hardy
Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood... -- Richard Peck
The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood. -- Joel Fuhrman
One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do. -- Amy Dickinson
Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence. -- Uwe Reinhardt
Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger. -- Mary Pipher
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence -- Anthony Daniels
You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it? -- Sally Hawkins
We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness. -- Katherine Dunn
My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late. -- Donalyn Miller
It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood. -- Gwen Ifill
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries. -- Alan Hirsch
Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly -- Hank Green
I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood. -- Mel Brooks
the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood. -- Becky Freeman
Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood. -- Pete Townshend
Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. -- Edmund White
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young. -- Helen Fisher
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life. -- Vera Farmiga
Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult? -- Robert Bly
Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience. -- Jon Winokur
I'm fascinated to see the future of social media and also how the generation who grew up with it will evolve into adulthood. -- Shailene Woodley

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