Adulthood Quotes

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood. (Germaine Greer)
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood? View quote
Fran Lebowitz
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness. View quote
Alison Gopnik
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. View quote
Jim Henson
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains. View quote
Camille Paglia
If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. View quote
P. D. James
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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. View quote
Dylan Moran
Has it ever occurred to you...that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming? (Stephen King)
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. View quote
Thomas Szasz
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice that is, until we stop saying 'It got lost,' and say 'I lost it.' View quote
Sydney J. Harris
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. View quote
Meg Cabot
Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people. View quote
Neal Shusterman
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. View quote
Robert Bly
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young. View quote
Helen Fisher
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. View quote
Jack Canfield
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. View quote
Jena Malone
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. View quote
John Grogan
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)
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. View quote
Adam Savage
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. View quote
Charlotte Sophia Kasl
It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. View quote
Chris Van Hollen
I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now. View quote
Dan Byrd