Adulthood Quotes

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 Davis Kasl

Happy, Heart, Children

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

Movies, Young, Lives

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

Smart, Children, Child

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

Fun, Successful, Long

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

Hard, Tough, Wonderful

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.
Margaret Cho

Future, Everything, Else

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

Age, Old, Between

Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.
Ben Gibbard

Life, Reality, Friends

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

Life, Good, Bad

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.
Dave Eggers

Respect, Smart, Talk

I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them.
Beth Ditto

Best, Owe, Embracing

For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.
Beth Ditto

Best, Morning, Happy

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

Age, Study, Old

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

Important, Management, Fertility

'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that could only have been made by a gang of sullen, sun-deprived rock & roll boys fighting off adulthood tooth and nail.
Rob Sheffield

Best, Rock, Made

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.
Martin Sheen

Experience, Humanity, Country

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.
Robert Casey

Decision, Since, Choose

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.
Laura Marling

Feeling, Become, Choices

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

Life, Person, Through

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

Great, Society, Children

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.
Tina Fey

Family, Mom, Big

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

Happen, Hit, Capable

What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
Octavia Spencer

Life, Film, Inspired

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

Whole, Older, Childhood

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.
Ruben Hinojosa

Young, Serious, Youth

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.
Chris Van Hollen

Children, Through, Poverty

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.
Lake Bell

Love, School, Fashion

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

Until, Stop, Normal

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
Louise J. Kaplan

But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.
Bernice Weissbourd

Life, Family, Children

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